David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Bonnard Cat Art: Parody of Lunch With A Great Impressionist
About our Bonnard Cat Art Parody French impressionist Pierre Bonnard didn’t paint many cats, at least not as many among his canvases as I’d have liked. By David Stone Bonnard is one of my favorites. So are cats. I wish…
Wikipedia Fixes: Now Correcting Errors In Esther Hicks’s Page
Esther Hicks’s Wikipedia PR page challenges her trustworthiness of Wikipedia, not for the first time. Their page devoted to Esther Hicks is a yummy banquet for doubters of the online encyclopedia’s reliability. By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small…
Famous Artists’ Cats: Billy’s Monet Moment in Giverny’s Garden
About Monet’s Black Cat… I love Claude Monet, not as much as I love cats, but enough to have appreciated his paintings in more museum visits than I can count. By David Stone We all have images in our mind’s…
American Chat Noir, A Black Cat and His Pal Tour Paris
An American chat noir, our black cat in Paris, France, a cat adventure story… By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small I usually don’t remember where I get the ideas for my stories. Mostly, they pull together out of…
The Science Afterlife Problem… What’s It Really All About?
I love science. So, it bothers me when respected scientists take unscientific positions concerning “the afterlife.” A much broader ground of experience must be looked at from old, superstitious religious beliefs about life after death. The Science Afterlife Problem is…
The Tale of Two New York City Skyscrapers
The tale of two skyscrapers shows how pride, ego and art drove Manhattan skyward with unforgettable monuments. Today’s motives are different. Will featureless glass towers smother the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings? By David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News…
My Lucky Chance, Meeting Simon Dinnerstein with His Art
Meeting Simon Dinnerstein was just lucky, one of those New York things. New York City’s lucky because there are so many opportunities. And this was one of them. By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small My work brings me…
Look: Fine Art View of Beautiful Charles Bridge, Prague
About Deborah Julian’s Charles Bridge, Prague … Not all urban or street photography is fine art. It all depends on the photographer’s motive. Street photography is about narrative, and urban may be static, a look at the landscape or how…
To Know God, Speak Louder and Make the Universe Listen
Want To Know God? is an excerpt from A Million Different Things: Meditations of the Worlds Happiest Man. It has been edited for reading online. By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small I’ve said before and will reiterate: the chances…
Living the Sixties, The Dark Years: 1965
Sixties, the dark years… What comes up on your antenna when you think of the 1960s? Hippies? Advances in Civil Rights? The Vietnam War? Assassinations? I looked at the dark years, starting with 1965, that seeded the future. By David…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor