Bellini’s Norma

Bellini’s Norma

How can I love an artform that is so consistently, insistently cruel to its female characters? asks Charlotte Higgins in...

photography by Susa Silvermarie

Gift of the Pause

My sister spoke today of getting up from her kitchen lunch counter after eating part of a meal, pausing the...

Sonnet to Lake Michigan

Sonnet to Lake Michigan

I just returned from Milwaukee WI where I was blessed to swim, one day, in great Lake Michigan.  Leaving the...

photography by Susa Silvermarie

Conchita at Work

Here is Conchita on her backstrap loom near where I live in Ajijic, weaving the wall hanging that now graces...