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Widow’s Weeds 19: Charlotte’s Web

Widow’s Weeds 19: Charlotte’s Web

November 6th, 2023 | Family, Friends, General, literature and poetry, Loss, Matters of the Spirit, Memory, Writing

I must have read Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White dozens of times; probably for the first time when I was about thirteen. The book and I are the same age, both of us born in 1952. Charlotte’s Web was in a pile of books I had pulled from Dan’s study, mostly children’s...
Christmas Letter 2019

Christmas Letter 2019

December 6th, 2019 | Architecture and Design, Cooking, Kitchen and Table, Europe, Family, Genealogy, General, Health, literature and poetry, Travel, visual arts

My Dear One, noticing that we had a lot of empty calendar space from the end of October to the beginning of November, suggested that we fly off to somewhere in Europe. France? Italy? It took almost no time to decide on the Veneto. For ten days we nested in the...
Thoughts on Flutterbys In The Garden

Thoughts on Flutterbys In The Garden

July 27th, 2019 | Gardens and Gardening, General, literature and poetry, the world and Mother Nature

I cannot, of the life of me, get that pesky monarch to pause and pose for a picture. I have a pretty long lens on the camera and I don’t need to get very close, but still. Very irritating. I’ve never spent much time watching butterflies. I learned to differentiate...
Books # 26 – 34 ½ in 2018: All The Rest

Books # 26 – 34 ½ in 2018: All The Rest

January 16th, 2019 | General, literature and poetry, Politics, Popular Culture

I had set myself a goal on GoodReads of 50 books in 2018 and got to 34 ½. I also determined that I would post on every book I read in this blog. Well, that’s two resolutions not kept. So here are the titles left out since 4 August 2018 (in the order read): Noah...

Book # 23 in 2018: “Mad Enchantment” by Ross King

June 25th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Europe, Gardens and Gardening, General, literature and poetry, the world and Mother Nature, Travel, visual arts

Every time I pick up a Ross King book, it’s longer and weightier. Brunelleschi’s Dome was a little bit of a thing, perfect for reading on a transcontinental flight. Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling was longer but then the Sistine Chapel ceiling is a better...

Book # 22 in 2018: “The Pharaoh Key” by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

June 24th, 2018 | Africa, General, Indigenous Peoples, literature and poetry, Popular Culture, Travel

I do like Gideon Crew–quite a bit more than Preston & Child’s better-known sleuth, Agent Pendergast, whom I find annoying in the southern, courtly, albino-pale, omniscient and omnipotent way. “The Pharaoh Key” (#5 in the Gideon Crew series)...
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