On the Way Home

   As one does on the eve of a premature death, I drew up a mental list of the pleasures of which I was deprived by the fact that Albertin...

   "What did you think of the Trocadero, you little gadabout?"    "I'm jolly glad I came away from it to go out with...

It's odd.  For years it seemed like we never had any visitors, but suddenly the last couple years there's been a steady stream of f...

I was struck by how much reality there is in the work of Wagner as I contemplated once more those insistent, fleeting themes which visit a...