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 […]
Tag: the past
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: 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 […]
1000 books: Pictorial Key to the Tarot.
Still not done with Buddhist Cosmology, but meanwhile we have The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Waite, originally published in 1910. I feel […]
1000 books: Sex Tips for Girls.
Sex Tips for Girls, Cynthia Heimel, from the dizzying past of 1983. Not actually a book about sex tips. Well, okay, maybe 25% a book […]
1000 books: Lutheran Handbook.
The Lutheran Handbook, from Augsburg Fortress, 2005. I was raised Lutheran, next to a Lutheran Church, with a Lutheran minister for a father. I can […]
Five things, one of them thinky.
I had my one-month followup with the ophthalmologist for the retinal tear. Healthy eyes, he said, and then gave me great news: the floaters that […]
Easter Sunday.
My dad was a Lutheran minister. Despite this, my family wasn’t particularly religious: we attended church but not always willingly, Mom grumbling about the cloud […]
New pictures! Old friends. (Slightly related.)
(Thank you, Tim, a thousand times, for all the work on the migration. You are a jewel.) These violets were by my front walk this […]
Colette and me writing.
(This was part of a scientific model from a Glasgow museum, in October.) So, it will be a surprise to no one that I am […]