“I didn’t plan it this way, but it turns out that my backyard garden has the exact number of flower blossoms in it to support one hummingbird: no more, no less.” Anita Sullivan …

“‘Anecdote’ means ‘unpublished,’ which means informal, without shape or polish. Your own story is, well, yours; it’s a work in progress, connected to you like a Siamese twin and, in a sense, not…

“In 2013, the visual absurd seems to be losing its impact since its origins in Europe during World War II. Perhaps the best known work by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte is his…

  “I was born in 1941, so I cannot blame my ‘rage for order’ on the Depression. I’m a clean-desk man, certifiably neat, who orders the same thing every time he enters McDonald’s.…

“One night, when I was still in the army, I was driving the mid-shift out to our intercept site on the West German border to relieve the swing shift. On a remote but…

“So. Add to all this mayhem (me, packing books and paintings and china, and calling Maryanne daily for succor and encouragement, and Dean, ever-so-slowly packing LPs and CDs and sheet music, mostly in…

Won Over By Reality By Tim Bayer BRIGHTON New York—(Weekly Hubris)—1/5/2014—With the proliferation of stunning digital image manipulation and special effects, most of the coolest of the cool visual stuff on view in…

“Our first opportunity to strip off outdoors presented itself during a holiday on St. Martin, where we discovered, along its vast coastline, Orient Bay, a world-renowned nude beach and resort where nudity is…

“Greece is soaked with the blood of my forebears, with that final offering of their fierce love.”—Helen Noakes Waking Point By Helen Noakes “I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to…

Won Over By Reality By Tim Bayer BRIGHTON New York—(Weekly Hubris)—12/29/2014—For all of you, this last week of the 2014 holiday season, I have a festive video to share that features a magical piano,…