USA Rail Pass

Readers of this blog from its start may have noticed my interest in trains. In my last months in the … More

Costumes for Cinderella

Through a friend I met one of the founders of the Playhouse Community Theatre in Houston. It is a charity … More

In a part of Houston, street names and the block numbers are indicated by mosaic laid into the kerbstones at intersections. … More

It is summer in the USA, which also means baseball season has started, which means I had to go and … More

This summer there is a James Turrell exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which is referred to as an … More

In my post ‘Shirts and Blouses’ I asserted that the variety of clothes styles available to women in a culture … More

I recently encountered this neat tool which shows visually where you’ve been as well as calculate the proportion of that … More

Exercising my right to freedom of speech on behalf of those who are being stopped from doing so right now … More

About a year or so ago a friend posted a link to Colossal onto facebook showing a picture which I … More

Liz’s poem ‘Fashion Statement‘ presents images of many different kinds of fashion and made me ponder what fashion is for. … More