RovinCrone

Some time back in the seventies, Placido Domingo sang the title role in Tales of Hoffmann at the Lyric Opera in Chicago. As if...

It’s fun now to listen to the morning traffic reports on KQED. Sitting with a cup of coffee and looking out over a forested canyon, I hear...

As a toddler I was chubby but cute. It wasn’t until about the third grade that I gained a lot of weight and became genuinely fat. For ...

I always planned to have a stable, permanent home, probably in the Midwestern area of my birth. Instead, my life has turned out somewh...

It’s a sunny day, and I’m baking banana bread in our solar oven. As this way of cooking is usually slower than using a conventional oven, ...

My obsession began back in the sixties, when I was a young bride with a student husband and with little money. Someone pointed out t...