Five from Andersen for T.G. I I see you as the little mermaid barefoot beside someone else’s marriage bed and longing, yearning for that closeness which you will never never never never have. (And dreams of children you will never...
We’ve been reading Men, Microscopes and Living Things, which is a sort of history of biology for children. On the whole I really like the book. It’s well written and engaging. But the chapters on medieval herbalists and medieval bestiaries...
Monday November 5 We started off the day at the dentist, which took up the whole of the morning. Afternoon stories: Began The Fairy Doll by Rumer Godden; Magna Charta; Louis de Montfort; Men, Microscopes and Living Things; Story of the World (Henry...
The clouds look like they could be snow clouds. But this early in November, probably they won’t shake down any soft feathers upon us. (Though far-away friends on Facebook are proudly sharing photos of white-dusted lawns and even a miniature snowman...
“I knew little about Maud Plunkett. I knew I was here because the Major had trained us all as cadets. What I shared with his wife we shared as gardeners. I had wanted large green words to lie waxen on the page’s skin, floating but rooted...
Time is going too fast, flying through the fall, I’m still not over summer. Where did it go? I don’t think we made it over to D.W. Field park once this year. But I guess we did go to Ned’s Point a bunch for Shakespeare and swimming. And when was the...
Finished in October 1. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson I originally read this book ages ago. Maybe when I was in high school or college? I don’t think I liked it very much. So for years whenever anyone recommends it or it comes up in conversation I’ve...
On Saturday the boys pulled out the Scrabble game and I helped them play while I baked bread, made preserved lemons, and whipped up some fish chowder from Friday night’s leftover tilapia. Really it was almost like playing Scrabble against...
