Nine days ago, for the first time since well before the pandemic started, I drove somewhere. Since my Subaru is still not working properly (after […]
1000 books: Arethusa, Lady Harland’s Commonplace Book
Arethusa, Lady Harland’s Commonplace Book: Memorandums of Various Sorts Made Between 1827 and 1833 By Arethusa Lady Harland at Orwell Park and Richmond Terrace, reprinted […]
1000 books: Yet Another Cookbook.
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes, by Late Maître d’Hôtel and Chief Cook to Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria Charles Francatelli, a 1993 […]
The difference between 10am and 7pm…
is the difference between this post and my previous Sunday posts. Wonderful four-mile walk today. I am doing more of these, and with more energy, […]
1000 books: The American Frugal Housewife.
When did I get so many old cookbooks? The American Frugal Housewife, by Lydia Maria Child, a fascinating antislavery and women’s rights activist, originally published […]
1000 books: The Ladies’ Floral Calendar.
We’re heading into a slew of vintage and antique books about householding and cooking, now. The first is The Ladies’ Floral Calendar and Household Receipt […]
Five things, not all birds, birds, birds.
Fall is here, and the leaves are astonishing. I have taken what feel like hundreds of pictures of the fallen leaves from some local tree: […]
1000 books: Buddhist Cosmology. Finally.
Buddhist Cosmology: Philosophy and Origins, from Akira Sadakata (1997). This did take a while: a detailed description of Mahāyāna and pre-Mahāyāna cosmology, with many diagrams. […]