Linda LaRoche

I love history and every year I look forward to the Winter Solstice, so with that in mind, I thought I’d share its meaning from both...

I re-watched Sophie’s Choice about a week ago and was struck by Kevin Kline’s boldness to stand out. He refused to follow the norm and...

Rossini’s rendition of La Cenerentola, aka Cinderella, debuted in 1817 as an opera, the tale of a woman cast aside by her own family, who...

Twentieth Century-Fox Studio mogul Darryl Zanuck predicted of television, and was quoted as saying, “People will soon get tired of...

"As above, so below." Legend has it that these words belong to the great mystic, philosopher, astrologer, and prophet Hermes...

Last night I witnessed the end of the pandemic hiatus at Los Angeles Opera. It felt weird. It felt, in certain essential ways,...

Off to see the world, there’s such a lot of world to see. When I first heard the lyrics of Moon River by Henry Mancini, I was in my...

I watched the 1995 film Raising Isiah for the first time a few days ago and was left with many thoughts. In some ways, it’s about the...

Last week I met Margo Martindale at a book signing. In case you don’t recognize the name, you undoubtedly have seen her as a character...

This last election, in my opinion, brought out the worse in people. It’s taken some time for people to see the light at the end of the...

Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures. -Thomas Traherne I grew up believing I was different from my...

With so many people homebound this past year, indoors has become the new outdoors. Home is where you exercise, digitally chat with...

We are living in a revolutionary period where the old has to break down for the new world order and growth to emerge. 2020 was brimming...

There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of my mother. Her beauty, her scent, her giving nature, the sound of her voice, the way...

Yesterday I had a birthday and I dropped off my voting ballot. Now that’s a first for me but I have never been more concerned about our...

I could not watch all of last week's debate. It was jarring and I felt upset by hearing a non-stop argument with no issues discussed,...

This year has been an odd one and cooking up content for a blog seems trivial, but with so much talk on dark subjects, I thought I’d...

Surely there are worse things one can witness than a cathedral on fire. Homes and cities. People. Crops, buildings. Flags. Surely stone,...

I didn’t know how much I loved a good detective story until I watched how the Brits create one. They combine suspense, mental twists,...

For those who have their eyes peeled on the campaign trail, I was pleased to see Kamala Harris join the race. After her opening remarks...