Mirka Muse

  I grew up in Israel before every home had air conditioning, and the month of August was a challenge even for the august and robust among u...

  September first isn’t just a plain ol’ first. It’s the (unofficial) beginning of fall. It’s the whisper of the beginning of a new Jewi...

                                                         Days of Summer   Allow me to indulge and share my favorite lounging partners on...

I’m allowing myself to indulge in some just fun (for whom? for me) photos I  post here. I hope you, too, will enjoy looking at today’s peek ...

Where I live, the San Francisco bay area, we do not have real seasons. The comment attributed to Mark Twain about this is rather famous: “...

Or— The Right Word On this date in history, June 26 1963 to be exact, this faux pas registered: US President  John F. Kennedy  g...

*...almost {June 21 st 9:07 AM, PDT } So, we are just about to enter official summer. I was never fond of Summer, until I m...

Not complaining, mind you. I live in the land of eternal Spring. But it’s also the place where Mark Twain famously said, “the coldest winte...

A few days ago I wished my picture book critique group a good summer and sent this as a good omen for getting lots of reading done— ...

Where I live, the seasons are barely delineated. Call it year-round spring, and you wouldn’t be far off. But we do our best to pretend to ...

Allow me this frivolous empty-headed meditation on the empty nester in summer. It is summer, and the heat makes me lo...

Nothing much happens in August. August is when the Parisians leave Paris for calmer grounds. August is when the well-heeled Engl...

memories… … light the corners of my mind… A  few weeks ago, reunion fever spread amongst my classmates. I’m talking about ...