by Michele Genthon | Nov 7, 2013 | MUSINGS, Traveling
GRANADA We went to a gypsy cave in Sacromonte, on the outskirts of Granada one evening for a flamenco show. No castanets, no partners. Just one guitar, two singers, four dancers, and a complicated pattern of hand clapping, but there is no experience in this entire...
by Michele Genthon | Nov 7, 2013 | MUSINGS, Traveling
MÁLAGA Picasso only lived here until he was nineteen, but the city tries to make the most of this happenstance. Picasso Selling Tapas Gary Hanging Out with Picasso The museums in Malaga obviously do not house Picasso’s best works and we found the interactive museum of...
by Michele Genthon | Nov 4, 2013 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
How does one write about Toni Morrison using ordinary words? Toni Morrison has won nearly every book prize awarded and in 2006 The New York Times Book Review named her novel Beloved, the best novel in the previous 25 years. She...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 28, 2013 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Dianne Feinstein’s career has been a succession of firsts: –the first woman to be President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors –the first woman to be Mayor of San Francisco –the first woman elected Senator from the State of California...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 22, 2013 | MUSINGS, Traveling
GONDOLAS (Written October 2, 2013) This morning, while fixing breakfast in our apartment, I heard a gondolier singing, not an unusual occurrence in Venice, but his voice sounded like it was in the next room. I pulled back the curtains and shutters, and a gondolier was...