USA Rail Pass

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

Costumes for Cinderella

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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