Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, by Edith Holden, from 1906 but taking the Gift Books world by storm in 1977 and for what seemed […]
Category: Musings
1000 books: Diary of a Victorian Lady (first of many).
The Diary of a Victorian Lady: Scenes from her Daily Life, 1864-1865, from Adelaide Pountjoy. This is a total pleasure: a young woman of considerable […]
A day late, the week in review.
The whole week felt randomized and blurry, as though I was seeing through a fog of some sort. I still am on schedule to complete […]
Foods of my people, part 2.
There were so many Norwegian foods I posted about! It wasn’t always that the food was vile (though sometimes it was) or bland or a […]
Foods of my People, redux.
It all started in January 2008, when a livejournal friend, copperwise, sent me a lovely Norwegian sweater (which I still have), some antique walrus mammoth […]
1000 books: all those Scandinavian cookbooks!
There were so many of these…. Norse Cookery: A Cook Book of Popular Norwegian Recipes (1960), no author, published by the College City Press, in […]
Five things.
Monday of last week, I decided I wanted a tree, and since Cottin’s hardware had just posted about their trailer-load of Michigan trees, I went […]
1000 books: Time Cat.
This isn’t quite one of the 1000. I read this as a child, and I owned a copy as an adult, but at some point […]
Solo holiday 2020: how to.
In the past fifteen years I’ve spent most of my holidays without a partner, away from family, often in towns where I have only one […]