I am writing this as little tiny snowplows rove across my deck, looking for sunflower seeds and peanuts in the several inches of snow that […]
Watching the little disk spin.
This feels a lot like a reboot: my drive crashed when I heard Jim died (and accepted it), and since then I have been restarting […]
Life, going on.
I am still grieving for Jim, of course. I know this will go on; it will come, it will go. I am so grateful for […]
With great sadness.
This morning, James Gunn passed on at the age of 97. We’re not sure of what, but it probably was congestive heart failure. He went […]
1000 books: Libby.
Another one of these luscious, lusciou books that became so popular after the Edwardian Diary: Libby: The Sketches, Letters, & Journal of Libby Beaman, Recorded […]
Lots of things.
I don’t see especially well, and much as I’ve always loved space, telescopes therefore have never been that appealing to me. I timed a long […]
1000 books: A Lady of Fashion.
This is one of my favorites of these: A Lady of Fashion: Barbara Johnson’s Album of Styles and Fabrics (copies start at $160) is a […]
1000 books: Maud.
Maud: The Illustrated Diary of a Victorian Woman, Maud Berkeley. This time, she lives on the Isle of Wight, these diaries are for the 1880s-90s, […]