Widower's Tango

Four years ago on this blog I commented about the ongoing Republican contest for the party’s nomination (the Democratic contest seemed to ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald On the occasion of the 92nd Academy Awards, I quoted at length the decidedly dim view that Edmund Wilson took of the...

“And yet this book makes one slightly sick.” For me, watching the Academy Awards is not much different from watching the Grammys – a pr...

[It seems incredible to me that Kirk Douglas, who has died at the age of 103, was born three years after my father and two before my moth...

George Orwell (or Eric Blair) died 70 years ago today. It is quite impossible for me to let the day pass without marking it, even wh...

My step-daughter turns 18 today. A very big deal here in the Philippines. They call it her "debut." I'm not sure if I'v...

Maybe I should have saved those leftover dreams? Funny, but here’s that rainy day. Here’s that rainy day they told me about And I lau...