March 2014 – Clay Russell

You and I don’t know each other but I do know a little about what you’re surely experiencing right now. You said you…

I read something recently about the need to teach kids – girls especially? – to say “thank you” more often, instead of brushing…

It doesn’t require much prompting for me to wax lyrical about Julia Child and her strong influence on my deep interest in cooking….

Almost six months ago I celebrated my birthday by cutting up the carcass of a lamb. That might not be everybody’s idea of…

Riley gets considerable attention in social media but today I’m giving him some space here. He is a cat who knows how to…

The BuzzFeed Quiz spigot is open all the way lately. I’ve learned which U.S. president I am, which Gone with the Wind character…

Picture an old department store, a store with a central atrium onto which every floor opens. Marshall Field’s in Chicago and Galeries Lafayette…

In Robert Benchley’s collection of essays titled My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew there is a piece called “Movie…

Recently I enumerated some activities in which I don’t care to engage. I indicated at the time that that list was by no…

Clay Russell