Six writers share their personal connections to Ukraine: Pete Philipps, Judy Adler, Joan Holtzman, Carol Blitzer, Ruth Lowy, Nancy Moss. Scroll down to see all..
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Artful Renderings Transformed
Evelyn Philipps, has created the lovely pen and ink drawings you see below and had them imprinted on notecards. Each card is 4.25″ x 5.5”..
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Helping the Ukrainian People: Some Suggestions
Seeing so much suffering in Ukraine, most of us feel impelled to do something. Making donations that provide humanitarian aid is an obvious and useful..
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Three Poems
September 1, 1939 W. H. Auden (written upon the Nazi invasion of Poland) I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and..
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History Lesson
Pete Philipps — She was my first love. I was eight. She was my teacher, and normally that would be all there is to tell...
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A Tale of Three Drawings
My Sax drawing unfolded in a dream. I woke up one morning with the image floating just beyond my visual field, a golden saxophone writhing..
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Magma Series
Presenting The Magma Series — unique sculptures, cast in bronze enhanced with multiple patinas, mounted on hard wood bases. They are concerned with the earth..
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WOWOWL
Here you see an owl that speaks especially to us: a masterful and funny drawing, full of clever visual and wordy puns — clearly a work of art..
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My First Car
Pete Philipps — My first car went to Carnegie Hall—and that’s as far as it went the day I picked it up from the dealer..
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Visual Puns
Can you figure these out? Just in case, answers appear below: pumpkin pies 2. fork in the road 3. card shark 4. sweet tooth 5...
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Funny Anagrams
Amazing Anagrams 1. “To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows..
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Considered Opinions Redux
Alma Flesch — Retirement and aging do not necessarily lead to detachment from the problems roiling the world. Many older people remain engaged, often passionately,..
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What The OWL Sees
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Garden Music
Pete Philipps — That Sunday, for reasons he left unexplained, my father insisted on taking the streetcar to Villa Brandt instead of walking there, as..
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Make Time for Friends
Carol Blitzer — Thirty-five years ago I wrote a column for the Palo Alto Weekly entitled “No time for friends.” It was a rather sad..
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