One beautiful montage
Among film connoisseurs, one of the most abhorred techniques is the montage. Some critics consider it a cardinal sin, an [...]
Trail of Tears to Palestine
• The colonist makes history. His life is an epic, an odyssey. He is invested with the very beginning: “We [...]
Photo essay: Home at the forge
My husband, Simon, is a Master Artist Blacksmith; he began learning the craft in England from his father, and [...]
Warrior culture
Michael Paris, a historian at the University of Lancashire, whom I met during my high school history class, has been [...]
At war’s end
Like a character in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, I recently joined a British pilgrimage in “April, when its showers are sweet.” [...]
Blackbirds of May
A shiny, blue-black merle is drinking from our terrace birdbath, throwing back his little orange beak, and enjoying the cool [...]
Making good trouble
Fighting incessant wind, I hold my homemade sign high above my head as I yell into the highway, “Show me [...]
Finding myself in Venice
I never tire of returning to Venice. There’s something ineffable about this unique Italian city — an intricate tapestry of [...]
Home away from home?
From the time I arrived in France, aged three, with an American passport and barely able to form a sentence [...]
In the city of coffee
Italy is renowned for its coffee shops on every corner. This devotion to coffee, however, is taken to a whole [...]
Endless fretting
The other day, I found myself walking quickly to the subway in the worry that I wouldn’t make it to [...]