Author: Cliff

April 5, 2005

>Wild Daffodils

>Wild Daffodils Hundreds of daffodils appear each year (of course) in the field behind my house. Until I bought the land, it was pasture…
April 3, 2005

>Twelfth Night

>If music be the food of love, play on;Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.That strain again! it…
April 1, 2005

>Wolfowitz Confirmed

>I spent Wednesday at the World Bank, the day before the Board of Executive Directors met to consider the nomination of Paul Wolfowitz as…
April 1, 2005

>Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (cont’d–Part I.5)

>5.The whistle splits open spitting outhot seeds. The thin grasses ignite.At the far end of the field loadedwith quicksilver the wild horses are running.We…
March 29, 2005

>Edward P. Jones at Washington & Lee

>I attended a reading by Edward P. Jones at Washington & Lee this afternoon. Jones, who was a National Book award Finalist for his…
March 27, 2005

>The Tamer Tamed

>Tonight was the closing performance of The Tamer Tamed, by John Fletcher, at Shenandoah Shakespeare’s Blackfriars Playhouse. The play, performed originally by Shakespeare’s company…
March 26, 2005

>A King and No King

>My dash to catch all three of this season’s repertoire at Shenandoah Shakespeare continued last night; I saw their production of A King and…
March 22, 2005

>Passing the Stick

>Carol passed it to me: 1. You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?Ulysses 2. Have you ever had a…
March 22, 2005

>Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (Cont’d–Part I.4)

>4.Paducah. It is 7 a.m. on the morning of May the 15th 1924.Delicious odor of fried hominy grits drenched in molasses.Lightly in the gutter…
March 21, 2005

>Interview with Lorraine Lopez

>Check out this Interview with Lorraine Lopez, one of the Virginia Festival of the Book panelists I mentioned yesterday.