• Are you here for the dance?

    Are you here for the dance?

    Zekavat Trip, Post #3 Post #1 Post #2 “Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.” – Pina Bausch After an easy overnight flight, we arrived in the morning to a rainy Dublin. We took an Uber to The Blooms Hotel, which is in Temple Bar, a lively Dublin neighborhood. Dublin, the birthplace of James Joyce, was…

  • Photo Walk: Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club

    Photo Walk: Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club

    Not too long ago, I bought a mirrorless Canon R10, but I haven’t been too diligent about making friends with her. I do like how light and compact she is, but just haven’t felt compelled to take her out for spins. Back in November, when I saw a photo walk held by Unique Photo, my…

  • Philadelphia: Censoring Truth at The President’s House Exhibit

    Philadelphia: Censoring Truth at The President’s House Exhibit

    Philadelphia: Censoring Truth at The President’s House Exhibit by Diana Day

  • Go Slow

    Go Slow

    Zekavat Trip, Post #2 When I wrote the Zekavat grant proposal, I dreamed of being a “slow tourist” so I could savor the cultures and locales that inspired the great modernist literature and drama I had read in my college course. I figured that going slowly and being very selective about the activities in each…

  • Serendipity and Reminiscence: A Literary, Dance, and Visual Arts Pilgrimage Through Modernist Dublin, London, Paris, and Berlin

    Serendipity and Reminiscence: A Literary, Dance, and Visual Arts Pilgrimage Through Modernist Dublin, London, Paris, and Berlin

    Zekavat Trip, Post #1 “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta I did a thing this spring, took a leap of faith. Now that my children are launching their own lives, time flows differently than it did when my primary focus was mothering.  I find myself randomly…

  • Brave: New World?

    Not so much, sorry to say. My husband and I choked back the bile that leaps into the throats of the middle class when the person behind the glass at the movie theater says, “That will be $50, please,” and took our girls to go see Brave this afternoon. I couldn’t resist the previews — that…