¡Twinky Wonder! ¡Twinky Wonder!

Hilary — “¡Quiero mi Tuinky!” Much has been written these last few days on the demise of Hostess and…

Planting Rice Is Never Fun

Because my mother was born in Manila and her mother moved from Spain to the Philippines when she was a young…

J, Curtis Daily, Robert Studer & William Gibson

An Odalisque in 3200

An odalisque (Turkish: Odalık) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court…

Beauty in Monochrome

I remember that day some years ago when I first saw Harold Edgerton’s drop of milk photograph in colour. Until then since…

A New Project For 2018

Luke 4:24 -King James Version

Two (almost) Crazy Women

I became aware that actors can act (something that is not always self-evident when I had the pleasure of taking…

Art Nuko — He Told Us So

Malcolm Parry as editor of Vancouver Magazine from June 1974 to December 1987 and August 1989 to September 1990 had…

An Almost Rant About Medium

The photograph above is not a perfect one. In fact it is the result of a mistake. I took a photograph of my…

My Rosemary — The Plant Snob

My mother was a snob. She often would say to me in her precise Castilian, “Hay poca gente fina como…