Earlier this week I attended a Zoom meeting with about a dozen UU ministers serving congregations in the greater Los… Read more In-Person Meetings and Worship
Author: Rick
My life-long passion is in the arts: music, theater, visual arts, and literature. I graduated from Cal Arts in 1985 with a degree in music composition. After a career in Human Resources with the AIDS Project Los Angeles and as a parish minister for Unitarian Universalist churches in the Los Angeles area, I retired in 2025 and pursued my artistic work: drawing, painting, composing, and creative writing.
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart is the first novel by Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe, published in… Read more Things Fall Apart
The Perfect Man
The Perfect Man: The Muscular Life and Times of Eugen Sandow, Victorian Stongman by David Waller Eugen Sandow is called… Read more The Perfect Man
Masks
Lately, we’ve all gotten to learn what it feels like to wear a mask: uncomfortable, constricting, distancing. But even without… Read more Masks
The Acceptance World
The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell This is the third of the twelve novels that comprise Powell’s A Dance to… Read more The Acceptance World
A Buyer’s Market
A Buyer’s Market by Anthony Powell The second novel of Powell’s twelve novel series, A Dance to the Music of… Read more A Buyer’s Market
A Question of Upbringing
A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell A Question of Upbringing is the first novel of the twelve novels that… Read more A Question of Upbringing
Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin Jim and I saw a production of Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin at Santa Fe this… Read more Eugene Onegin
The Existence of a Higher Power
The basis of any spiritual system is the recognition of something greater than yourself: something beyond you that also includes… Read more The Existence of a Higher Power
Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography
Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography, by Harlow Robinson I’m always happy to read books recommended by friends. This is a book… Read more Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography