Relationships and Going Places

Roberta McReynolds writes: I took my husband to a doctor's appointment only to discover they had no record of it. His appointment card was at home, so I couldn't convince the receptionist that we were supposed to be there. She initiated a long, pointless dialogue about the dates of Mike's previous visits. We were just wasting time, so we abandoned our mission. We had passed a stunning orchard on the way through the countryside, and again on our departure, but without a camera. I needed to salvage something from a day that was otherwise doomed by multiple blunders. more »

Masterpieces spanning nearly four hundred years from Jan Brueghel the Younger's series devoted to the five senses to Canaletto's celebrated views of Venice; landscapes by innovators ranging from Joseph Mallord William Turner, Paul Cézanne, and Gustav Klimt to David Hockney and Gerhard Richter. Paintings by Thomas Moran, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe, and others provide an American perspective on landscapes at home and abroad. more »

"Over the past 35 years, we've lost 2,500 to 3,000 feet of land to coastal erosion. To put this in perspective: I was born in 1997, and since then, Shishmaref has lost about 100 feet. In the past 15 years, we had to move 13 houses — including my dear grandma Edna's house — from one end of the island to the other because of this loss of land. Within the next two decades, the whole island will erode away completely." more »

This book reminds us how far we have come when there are more highly educated women everywhere than at any other time in history. Still unresolved is the question of friendships between women and men. The difficulty of engaging in this fashion is emphasized by the need repeatedly to declare to doubters that sex is not a component of such a relationship. more »