Dear Readers of Lucindaville Blog: I am sorry to pass along the sad news that Lucinda Ebersole passed away on March 20, 2017 after a three...

I have been reading the new Diane Arbus bio by Arthur Lubow. If you want a detailed review of the book check out this New Yorker review. T...

Novels have begun to bore me because real life seems so much more interesting.  I am overly enamored of the 1920's, so I was glad to ...

Ansel Adams, Still Life, San Francisco , 1932 Today's venture with Cookbook Of The Day , is the old, but new The Photographer's ...

I went to buy drain cleaner yesterday. I know, it is not "Call me Ishmael" nor "It was the best of times, it was the wor...

Jenny Diski died April 28, 2016.  When told of her impending demise she made jokes. In 2014 she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She fe...

So I got sick and had to take antibiotics for nearly two weeks, and I hated it.  It made me puny and sickly, not to mention it was swelter...

Since I have been decidedly deaf, and not much of conversationalist, I have been catching up on taped shows on the DVR.  One of the do...

So I haven't been posting because I have several deadlines, and election fatigue, and nearly three weeks of rain. But today, I venture...

 Politics is getting so contentious and we haven't even really started the election. I am already overcome with election fatigue and w...