SATURDAY RUBRICS: 12/6/25 STOPPARD'S LEADING LADIES

My SATURDAY RUBRICS are now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.

LETTER FROM LONDON: 12/5/25 "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." - François Rabelais

My latest LETTER FROM LONDON is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.

TUESDAY WELL'D: 12/2/25 A Gallery of Images and Captions from My Life in London

My TUESDAY WELL’D gallery is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.

SATURDAY RUBRICS: 11/29/25 Happy Birthday, Gertrude, Willie, and Clive

My SATURDAY RUBRICS are now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check them out. Thanks.

LETTER FROM LONDON: 11/28/25 "All My Sons," Wicked," Frederick Douglass, and Thanksgiving

My latest LETTER FROM LONDON is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.

TUESDAY WELL'D: 11/ 25/25 This Week's Gallery of Photos

My latest TUESDAY WELL'D column a day late at SES/SUMS IT UP.. Check it out.. Thanks.

SATURDAY RUBRICS: 11/22/25 Unlikely Friendships

My SATURDAY RUBRICS are now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. They area about unlikely friendships this weekend. Check it out. Thanks.

LETTER FROM LONDON: 11/21/25 * Remembering Britten, Meeting Blundell, Crying for My Friend Robyn, Cruising the National Portrait Gallery, and Seeing Double at the Ballet

My latest LETTER FROM LONDON is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.

TUESDAY WELL'D: 11/18/25 Rendezvous at Pret and My Monday Walks "Into Town"

My TUESDAY WELL’D gallery is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.

SATURDAY RUBRICS: 11/15/25 Sally Kirkland and a Couple of Others

My SATURDAY RUBRICS honor three actresses this weekend. Check them out. Thanks.

LETTER FROM LONDON: 11/14/25 Incongruity, Forgiveness, and The Thing That's Not the Thing

My latest LETTER FROM LONDON is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.

SATURDAY RUBRICS: 11/8/25 Happy Birthday to Rickie Lee Jones and Two Other Special Women

MY SATURDAY RUBRICS at SES/SUMS IT UP celebrate three special women on their birthdays. Check it out. Thanks.

LETTER FROM LONDON: 11/7/25 Becomes Mostly a Missive from Mississippi

My latest LETTER FROM LONDON has now posted at SES/SUMS IT UP. I write this week about the American elections, Diane Ladd, the RSC production of Macbeth in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Cecil Beaton show at the National Portrait Gallery, and Mississippi. Check it out. Thanks.

TUESDAY WELL'D: 11/4/25 The "Charms" of Stratford-upon-Avon, Giving Myself a Hand for Getting There, and Going Over Some Other Photos from October

My TUESDAY WELL'D weekly gallery at SES/SUMS IT UP is now up. Check it out. Thanks.

SATURDAY RUBRICS: 11/1/25 SOME NOTABLE BRITISH WOMEN AS I NOTE THE BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER

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TUESDAY WELL'D: 10/28/25 A POTPOURRI OF PHOTOS FROM LONDON

My TUESDAY WELL’D photo gallery of London replete with captions is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.

SATURDAY RUBRICS: 10/25/25 MUSICAL MENTORS

My SATURDAY RUBRICS are now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. This weekend they are about musical mentors. Check it out. Thanks.

LETTER FROM LONDON: 10/24/25 ONE LIVE HORSE, ONE DEAD FOX, FIVE DANCING CHICKENS, SIX LOVELY LADIES, HOW I LOST 29 POUNDS, AND REMEMBERING SAMANTHA EGGAR

My latest LETTER FROM LONDON is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.

TUESDAY WELL'D: 10/21/25 BRITISH TREES

My TUESDAY WELL’D is up on yet another Wednesday at SES/SUMS IT UP. My schedule has been so jam packed day and night with cultural outings the last week that it has been hard to carve out the writing time. This week the gallery is all about trees.

SATURDAY RUBRICS: 10/18/25 Diane Keaton - "Please Stand a Little Closer Apart."

Check out my Saturday Rubrics at SES/SUMS IT UP. They honor Diane Keaton this weekend.

LETTER FROM LONDON: 10/17/25 PATTI SMITH, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, JENNIFER COOLIDGE, KERRY JAMES MARSHALL, REBECCA LENKIEWICZ, PRINCE HAMLET, QUEEN CHARLOTTE, MARTIN SHERMAN, ETHAN HAWKE, & "LORD HAVE MERCY"

My latest LETTER FROM LONDON is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. I write about some new movies I’ve seen at the London Film Festival this week and some plays I’ve seen and running into Jennifer Coolidge and the Kerry James Marshall show at the Royal Academy of Art. Check it out. Thanks.

TUESDAY WELL'D: 10/14/25 REFLECTIONS RE: PARIS & LONDON & BATH

My latest TUESDAY WELL’D is up and a day late. But it’s up. It’s busy here in London. Check it out. Thanks.

SATURDAY RUBICS: 10/11/25 BUSTING THROUGH

My SATURDAY RUBRICS are now up at SES/SUMS ITUP. They are alll about busts.

LETTER FROM LONDON: 10/9/25 PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN ON LIGHT AND SHADOW AND LIBERTY AND JOY

My latest LETTER FROM LONDON is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. I write about ballet and opera and theater and light and shadow and liberty and joy. Check it out. Thanks.

TUESDAY WELL'D: 10/7/25 A Gallery of London

My latest TUESDAY WELL'D gallery is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. My first week in London.

SATURDAY RUBRICS: 10/4/25 Julie and Jane

My latest SATURDAY RUBRICS in now up. I honor Julie Andrews and Jane Goodall. Check it out. Thanks.

LETTER FROM PARIS & LONDON: 10/2/25 From the Palais Garnier to a Couple of Vics

My latest LETTER - this one from Paris and London - at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.

TUESDAY WELL'D: 9/30/25 Paris One Last Time Until Next Spring

My latest TUESDAY WELL'D gallery is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.

SATURDAY RUBRICS: 9/27/25 STRAVINKSY

My SATURDAY RUBRICS are now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. Check it out. Thanks.

LETTER FROM PARIS: 9/25/25 1627, CA5067, C1705, CB9471, and RUNNING INTO MITT ROMNEY IN THE MARAIS

My latest LETTER FROM PARIS is now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. I write about running into Mitt Romney in the Marais. Check it out. Thanks.