"Had she not enough to do at Cold Comfort without there being a genius named Mybug staying a mile away from the farm who would probab...

I am still in trial (which means I am still whining about being in trial), but a couple of books still managed to make it into my house in ...

I can't resist a list. So when I saw this "Top 10" event on Random Ramblings , I was sucked in.  I enjoy a good series, us...

There is a line around the Portland metropolitan area called the Urban Growth Boundary – a controversial land use tool designed to contro...

Spring has sprung.  The pink trees are blooming and Easter is on the way. It is time to assess what bookery bloggery progress I've mad...

"The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few wee...

The War of the Worlds is a perennial favorite. Every couple of decades, its popularity is regenerated with a new adaptation, most famous...

Spring has sprung.  The pink trees are blooming and Easter is on the way. It is time to assess what bookery bloggery progress I've made...

"That's what I crave: meaningful places.  No one like a convert -- poor li'l L.A. boy, I'm a big fan, an aficionado, of t...

I had such a hectic trial week last week that I comforted myself with an order from amazon that arrived in time for Mailbox Monday . I s...

I love my 1968 edition of the New Casserole Cookbook ! It gives a little description of the dish or tells a story about it, then tells you...

Thanks go to Art Scatter for giving me the Prolific Blogger Award. Mr. Scatter managed to write a clever and engaging post about a blo...

Few debut novels are as polished and engaging as The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips. Set in the 1930s in Depression-ravaged Alabama, ...

I had hoped to keep up with daily posts while in trial, but things are going so fast and furious that blog posts are going to be sporadic. ...

"I walked all the way around Portland, along the invisible line called the Urban Growth Boundary." City Limits: Walking Por...

"Jack had gotten me thinking about why we didn't ever see fairies in the woods.  I figured something ate them." -- The Well...

Thanks to a terrific give-away on Book Dilettante , I got something in time for Mailbox Monday . I have read a little about this one and i...

Strangers and Brothers is a series of novels by C. P. Snow, published between 1940 and 1974. Set in England, all eleven novels in the serie...

An American Map is a collection of essays by Anne-Marie Oomen about and inspired by particular spots across America. It is more memoir t...

"After she threw the baby in, nobody believed me for the longest time." -- The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips ( Discover Aw...

I would have to live to be about 962 if I wanted to cook every recipe in every cookbook I have. But I have a goal of making at least one ...