Divagating

By Gwen S. Clarke A ROUND-TRIP TICKET TO PIDDLETRENTHIDE The wee village of Piddletrenthide, in the south of England, has...

By Gwen S. Clarke REMEMBERING HOW TO LAUGH If the evening television news is any measuring stick, there's not much...

REMEMBERING HOW TO LAUGH By Gwen S. Clarke If the evening television news is any measuring stick, there's not much...

By Gwen S. Clarke The other day, as I batted out of the house for a morning appointment (memo to...

by Gwen S. Clarke I just finished reading a feature in a regional newspaper by a sportswriter who loves covering...

By Gwen Clarke With the process of aging, time seems to acquire more value. Witness sayings like: “So many books,...

By Gwen S. Clarke That Etch-a-Sketch under our Christmas tree with its disarray of metal filings is the perfect metaphor...

Divagating by Gwen S. Clarke A widely-read newspaper columnist recently touched on a point that keeps hitting me between the...

DIVAGATING by Gwen Clarke Who among us hasn't grown up hearing authority figures say: Try it, you don't know what...

By Gwen S. Clarke Not an oxymoron—like “giant shrimp”, “alone together” or “random order”—armchair camping gains more appeal, the older...