Check out NPR’s fascinating “Talk of the Nation” interview with Edmund Morris regarding his new book “Beethoven, The Universal Composer.” In a response to a call-in question about Beethoven’s spiritual development, Morris reveals that while the great composer was schooled in Roman Catholic liturgy and wrote music as a young person for the church, he…

I woke up at five a.m. one recent morning, in part because I’d gone to bed at ten (an unusually early hour for me, unfortunately), but also because the window shade was beating against the bedroom window pane, making a lovely soft tapping noise in the billowing wind. Enjoying the noise, I listened deeper and…

Must read! Must read! Do not miss the interview on “co-creational” sex with “futurist and social architect” Barbara Marx Hubbard still accessible on the website “What Is Enlightenment?”. Everybody knows that the sexual heat of a youthful relationship is one of life’s greatest thrills. But what is the role of sex later in marriage? Hubbard…

The famous Macy’s store on Manhattan’s 34th Street now has two shoe departments: a “Comfortable” shoe section stocked with sneakers and rubber-soled sandals, and a “Fashion” shoe department brimming with the kind of spiky footwear you might see on “Desperate Housewives.” As I was recently flounced in a club chair, waiting for the sales person…

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