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Our 10-year-old Chattering son appears to be a synesthete, which in his case means that he “sees” letters in color and perceives the taste of foods on a “mental” grid or graph. A fair share of famous artists and composers have had synesthesia, a involuntary sensory irregularity in which some of the five senses cross…

We spent our New Year’s Eve with old friends (with a new baby) in Washington D.C., a city filled with so many memories since I lived in it eighteen years. We showed our own kids our old haunts, visited the renovated Portrait Gallery, and also caught a retrospective show of my beloved Joseph Cornell, which…

A reader calling herself Gramma writes: “My clutter consists of piles of old magazines and newspaper clippings about important subjects: politics; religion; history; civil rights movement; black history; women’s history; sociology; etc. After I got rid of about half of it, the remainder is keeping me from renovating my home, selling it, and moving to…

I don’t mean to sound gloomy, but these days after Christmas often make me think of death. They always have. But I’ve been more aware of life’s fleeting, poignant character in recent years. My mother died four years ago on January 3rd, and she labored under hospice care during this normally festive week. So now,…
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