by Rhiannon | Jul 28, 2010 | Going Places, Just for Fun, Once Upon a Time
In the midst of preparing for this year’s annual trip to Britain, I find myself thinking about my first one: a fabled journey that took place back in the mists of time, when the world was young, Stonehenge was rising on Salisbury Plain, and a tree-squirrel could...
by Rhiannon | May 23, 2010 | Artists & the Arts, General, It's a Mystery, Just for Fun
Let’s find out if you qualify. Imagine you’re walking by a lake on a gorgeous summer morning, breathing in the mingled scents of lake water and fragrant fir trees, and then you come upon a canoe pulled up at a dock, and you think, “That canoe could have a body...
by Rhiannon | May 18, 2010 | Going Places, Once Upon a Time
Once upon a time (1973), in a galaxy far far away (Liverpool), I was invited to the Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun by Allan Williams, “the man who gave away the Beatles.” “You must come,” he said, pressing a badge into my hand....
by Rhiannon | May 9, 2010 | General, It's a Mystery
“Wanted: Assistant Editor for two retail magazines,” read the ad in the San Francisco Chronicle. It was the mid-1970s, I was in my mid-twenties, and I figured that if a job involved putting words on paper, I could do it. But would the editor agree? It didn’t...
by Rhiannon | Apr 24, 2010 | Going Places, Just for Fun, Once Upon a Time
“Ah, Italy!” people have said to me, before they began to enthuse about the Uffizi Gallery, the Grand Canal, and a villa they rented in Tuscany where the locals brought them organic hand-knitted goat’s cheese. “Italy is just divine!” Oh really?...
