Saturday, March 31, 2018

Greek Easter--The Drama Begins

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I first posted this in April of 2010, when Orthodox Easter and Catholic Easter happened to fall on the same day.  This year Greek Easter i...
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Friday, March 23, 2018

Billionaire's Yacht "Guilty" , the Island of Hydra & Michael Jackson in Art

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Four years ago today, on March 23, 2014, I republished this essay about modern art and a very strange yacht I saw on the island of Hydra--a ...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Valentines in the U.S.--It All Started Here!

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Time to re-post my annual V al entine's Day essay. I see th at in today's New York Times there i s...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Royal Brides Part II—Diana’s Tiara and Victoria’s Secret

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-->          Last week I posted about Queen Victoria’s revolutionary wedding dress, which broke with tradition in 1840 by be...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

Thoughts on Turning 70--Seven Years Later

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(The photo shows my mother and myself in 1943) The wonderful thing about having a bad memory--as I do--is that I had completely fo...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Royal Brides Part 1--Victoria (and Diana and Kate)

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--> With Prince Harry’s engagement to American actress Meghan Markle set to climax in a wedding in St. George’s chapel at ...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Colette—The Most Scandalous Woman in Paris

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When I first bought this set of five French postcards dating from fin de siècle Paris, I didn’t realize that on...