Do We Miss Norman Rockwell?

This has evolved into an ode to Norman Rockwell. Or, at least, to an America that Rockwell famously depicted last century.

If you are of tender age and haven’t heard of the artist, that too is symptomatic of the story.

How this evolution came about is a testament to the human mind and its mysterious machinations. The process was, as Peter Falk admonished Alan Arkin in “The In Laws,” “serpentine, Shel, serpentine.” Read the rest of this entry »