Tidy Tidbits: Tides & Titles

WORDS ON WEATHER Hunkering Down Last weekend our friends and family cocooned in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New York during winter storm Jonas.  We watched from afar, thanks to the Weather Channel and the Web, almost gleeful that we were here in Florida.  But, like men’s sympathetic pregnancies, we hunkered down too—staying indoors, feasting on …

Tidy Tidbits: Childhood Memories

CURRENT READING Hold Still:  A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann I am one of those individuals who was offended by Mann’s photos of her children when they first appeared about twenty years ago.  I felt she had exploited them and that the photos were totally inappropriate for public viewing.  Yet, on the recommendation of …