According to today’s New York Times, if you’re genetically slated to get dementia (specifically Alzheimer’s; the article is not clear about other forms), there’s not much you can do to stop […]
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In celebration of all things sunny, Parking Suns now features every Sunday a different YouTube music clip about the sun! This week’s entry: Joe Pass and Ella Fitzgerald come together on “You Are
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Every Thursday, as part of my personal “enriched environment” initiative, I post a piece of art, usually from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which recently released online some 400,000 high-resolution
Throwback Thursdays Art Read More »
In celebration of all things sunny, Parking Suns now features every Sunday a different YouTube music clip about the sun! This week’s entry: “The Twilight Zone,” by the Manhattan Transfer. Why? Explanation below!
I may dabble in poetry and other forms of writing, but my grandfather, John Frederick Ballard, was a playwright on Broadway, and now my niece, Gwynn Ballard, who just graduated from