by Barbara Smith | Dec 3, 2022 | Personal Pigeonholes, Understanding the Times
I love Cole Porter — Well, I love his music. He had an ear for how we are, and put that into lilting and lovely music that made sense to me even in the 1960’s! (That Old Black Magic, I Get a Kick out of You, Night and Day — ) The man was as complicated as he was ... 
by Barbara Smith | Dec 2, 2022 | Personal Pigeonholes
Recently, a window washer came and removed layers of weather driven debris from our windows. The vestige of wind-driven rain on some windows clouded our view. Kind of like the cataracts on my eyes that have “ripened” to the point of removal. I wish –hope–... 
by Barbara Smith | Nov 19, 2022 | Understanding the Times
Coffee and Misleading Clues Watching Jeopardy we were sorry to watch one of the Jeopardy’s clues result in a wrong answer rewarded as right! A recent routine is enjoying evening coffee— a large cup of decaf—and watching Jeopardy. Because in such wackadoodle... 
by Barbara Smith | Nov 16, 2022 | Gardening & Housekeeping, Understanding the Times
After the 2022 Midterms . . . When I wrote the last blog, the mid-terms were looming; apparently voter turn out was good. And America survived! Some of my candidates won, most did not; one ballot issue passed, which I hoped would fail.* Time to quit being such an... 
by Barbara Smith | Nov 5, 2022 | Late Afternoon, Painting & Writing
Here’s a seed — I hope you will enjoy what blossoms on these pages — a taste of some paintings I did, beginning in Dallas and through the here and now. When I first began painting ay Pigment School of the Arts. I felt . . . OH so rusty, incompetent, dull, OLD and...