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Straight Outta Stone Ridge: Sumer is Icumen In

Evidence showing that Covid-19 enters the brain and causes dementia, especially in older brains provides ample reason to err on the side of caution, regardless of whether masking up entails experiencing head shakes and smirks and side-eye and even aggressive verbal snark from a-holes in the supermarket. […]

Straight Outta Stone Ridge: The Moles of Summer

For the first time in over half a century I have (a) my very own resident groundhog but (b) no designated local season prognosticator of the woodchuck persuasion. Hence a dilemma I faced this past February: Who to believe about the advent of spring? […]

A. D. Coleman Interview Session on Zoom Cancelled (Again)

The virtual Zoom interview with me that got rescheduled for 7 p.m. this evening, Monday, May 8, has been cancelled once again — this time because the interviewer, Douglas I. Sheer, president of the critically acclaimed series Artists Talk On Art (ATOA), came down with COVID. ATOA’s season has come to an end, so we will reschedule the session for sometime next fall. […]

Springing Forward: Bits & Pieces

On the evening of Monday, May 8, Douglas I. Sheer, president of the critically acclaimed series Artists Talk On Art, will conduct a virtual interview with me, hosted via Zoom. I invite all readers of this blog to join me for this event, which is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required, via the link below; then just log in on Monday, shortly before 7 p.m. EST. […]

Birthday Musings 12/19/22

I turn 79 today, newly ensconced in a house in the woods in upstate New York — Stone Ridge, an historic hamlet within Marbletown in Ulster County, to be exact, roughly 20 minutes from Woodstock, Kingston, New Paltz, and Poughkeepsie to the north and east. Per a previous post, we moved here from Staten Island in July, putting that house on the market. […]