Through Dooms of Love

After celebrating Latin mass tonight (Saturday), I found myself at a retirement party at Max's Opera Cafe. While the combo (piano, voca...

After high mass this morning, and a visit to the Asian Arts Museum this afternoon to look at the Tomb Treasures exhibition, I returned to c...

I was charmed to hear this afternoon that I express a certain "Panglossian naivete." No one has applied the adjective "Pangl...

The neighborhood motorcycle shop has closed. It opened a few years ago in a space formerly occupied by a typewriter repair shop. At the tim...

Friday evening past, and Sunday afternoon, I took myself to the Conservatory for their final opera performances of the season, Stravinsky...

I'm amused to hear, tonight, that a character named "Alex Martin" has been, um, dispatched, as it were, in a Doctor Blake my...

Tuesday past, a friend and I were in Cafe Creme at the Conservatory, when a nun made her way to the counter. After consideration of the l...

A beggar on Upper Market this afternoon offered "Bad Advice --- Only $3" (2.IV.17)

     While I waited for a bus at Stonestown late this afternoon in a light rain, a rainbow appeared against the clouds in the eastern sky...

This evening (Monday), by chance or by Providence, half a block from the Conservatory, I encountered JR on his way to hear a guitar departm...

This afternoon at the supermarket, I encountered the young cashier whom I spoke to three months ago (see November 13, 2016). He had electri...

     I learned a few hours ago (from television) that the Queen Charlotte Islands, off the north coast of British Columbia, are now called...

At my usual cafe this afternoon, someone ventured to play the baby grand. She began with a chunk of the Moonlight Sonata, continued with o...

This afternoon I took myself to the Conservatory, for a performance of Benjamin Britten's opera 'The Turn of the Screw.' I had...

     Tonight, I took myself to the Conservatory to hear Sarah Cahill (well-known local musician and radio presenter) and others perform wo...

The young cashier at the supermarket this afternoon was adorned with very electric blue hair. "Love your hair, man!" I said; ...

Today, I'm 70, the Biblical age, as the Psalmist says, "The days of our years are three-score and ten..." I recall Miss Marp...

This afternoon at The Cove on Castro, I watched a slide show, on one of the screens, of carved pumpkins, sophisticated creations far beyon...

This evening in The Castro I observed a young man, apparently anticipating Hallowe'en, dressed as a pope, complete in a white cassock ...

Recently,  I took myself to the Legion of Honor, to look at an exhibition of paintings by the Brothers Le Nain. At the round pool, near the ...