Beautiful and Different - A Closer Look - Fine Jewels

My infatuation with fine jewels is somewhat similar to my deep interest in French châteaux

Tudors to Windsors British Royal Portraits - Background - Essay

"..It’s easy to imagine Henry glittering in the torch light at Whitehall Palace..."

Carolyne Roehm Design and Style - Theta Charity Antiques Show 2018 - Essay

"...posh hotels and restaurants in the area inflated costs, us geezers recall when that part of downtown was an armpit..."

Choosing Red Wine at Sorrento Restaurant - Brunello di Montalcino - Sergio Vazquez - Essay

"...John’s nose was two inches from a Darioush Napa Valley Cabernet, a Jordan Alexander Valley Cabernet, a Far Niente Russian River Pinot Noir, and a “mild” Brunello..."

Irene’s Cuisine - A Closer Look at 529 Bienville Street, New Orleans

"Began the evening with a drink at one of my favorite dive bars, Chart Room..."

Fernando Casas - Interior with Disappearing Mirror - After Velázquez - A Closer Look - Essay

"Fernando Casas would be residing with the shades at this moment if the tree branch had fallen on his head instead of his arm..."

A Closer Look - Christy Karll’s Painting “Swerve” - Interview

“...You bitch,” I replied.  Surrounded by inspiring architecture.  I on the other hand was in Houston..."

Beef Empanadas with Olives - Seco’s Latin Cuisine - A Closer Look - Essay

"...green olives that juice-up Seco’s beef empanadas yanked my mind back to the time I was lost in an olive grove in Spain.."

Giacomo Restaurant’s Teroldego, Foradori, Rotaliano, Trentino 2015 - A Closer Look - Essay

Jose, the waiter at Giacomo, listened politely while I reminisced about “the old days.”

Michelangelo and Pope Paul III Background Story - Michelangelo and the Vatican Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples - Essay

"...his unwavering belief that Michelangelo was as much saint as genius, 'infused with divine grace,' can be tiresome..."

T-Coon’s Restaurant - Savage Breakfast - A Closer Look

"..the reason judges and farmers and kids and tourists crowd into T-Coon’s Restaurant..."

Thoughts about Crawfish and Slot Machines - Louisiana Food Politics - Essay

"...my instinct tells me that only a dumb-ass would boil a sack of crawfish inside..."

Notes on Lynda Frese’s Batwoman - Hilliard Museum - Essay

"Only good bourbon in a bar after could have made my visit to Lynda Frese’s studio more fun, but perhaps it was too early in the day for two old broads to be “drankin” at T-Boy’s Lounge"