The tile phase of the kitchen is finally underway.  We are still waiting on the subway tile for the kitchen backsplash, but the tile guy cam...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday this holiday weekend! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long ti...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the ...

In Lavinia , Ursula Le Guin reimagines the story of how Aeneas (of Virgil's Aeneid ) fought the locals of Latinum, married the king’s ...

The earthquake that lashed the Pacific Northwest in 1700 ranks among the mightiest the Earth can yield. Scientists today call it a megaq...

Other than getting an English Beat song stuck in my head, hanging a mirror in the new powder room didn't pack much of a punch. But be...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday this holiday weekend! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long ti...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the ...

I can think of dozens of reasons I buy used books, including the availability of out-of-print titles, price, and the happy feeling I...

A Prefect's Uncle is P. G. Wodehouse 's second published book. Like his first, The Pothunters , it is set in an English boarding...

The qualities which in later years rendered Frederick Wackerbath Bradshaw so conspicuous a figure in connection with the now celebrated a...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday this holiday weekend! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long ti...

Progress on our kitchen remodel was infinitesimal this week. We got doorknobs on the powder room and basement doors -- big whoop. We got...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the ...

It is comforting to think of memory as a recording of past events that can be played back anytime. But the brain does not store memories ...

June knocked on the door and waited, swaying a little, partly because the martini had been double, and partly because a radio down the ha...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday this holiday weekend! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long ti...

We got light fixtures, knobs, and pulls this week.  With all those details in, it is hard to accept that we still have no tile, so are a lon...

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the s...

Image is a literary and arts journal (among other things) with a mission to "support and showcase art shaped by the faith tradition...

But to condemn Camembert makers for wanting to change the recipe because they're "all about profit" is to condemn them f...