Nobby apple cake.
Robbie Burns. I’m trying to read one full entry in my Norton Anthology every day. The man is funny.
Tea. Catching up with the British average of 6 cups a day. I’m a Yorkshire Gold girl.
Hickory, Dickory, Dock. I love Monseiur Poirot. He’s sort of a family tradition.
Three foot drifts. Those are fun to [...]
There is a peculiar light to Monday mornings. Uneasy, it always feels to me, as if hurry thrummed in the very color of the day. But this past Monday, I ignored it. Rush was mobbing my conscience, but I gated it out because I was reading a book I truly could not put down. It [...]
Three grey day hours of delay in the Nashville airport, two caffeine-grabbing stops at Starbucks, and one restive ramble through terminals C and B had me in a serious state of mental exasperation last week. Three glorious hours of quiet, albeit unexpected, had been dropped in my introverted lap and I couldn’t do a thing [...]
Don’t tell me about science, Frost said. I’m something of a scientist myself. Bet you didn’t know that. Botany. You boys know what tropism is – its what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light… We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can’t – what was your word? dim? [...]
I should probably begin by stating that I did, finally, make it home. My driving angels got quite bruised when Gypsy slipped on the ice, nearly wedging me under a semi, and then spinning me out across the road so that I ended up facing oncoming traffic in the fast lane. Incredibly, I wasn’t hit [...]
I’m sure St. Brendan encountered a blizzard (well, the sea-faring equivalent) or two. It was swift, bright sailing until just after dark yesterday. I did manage to feel soaringly introspective most of the trip, helped by a mocha or two, and the friendly voices of Mat Kearney and Loreena McKennit. Kansas can be a stunning [...]
Tomorrow the road will be my ocean, sunlight my wind, and I will sail bravely into silence. I will part the waves of dawn as they run up the shore of the snake black highway, I will let myself be carried far away by the rhythm of the undulating landscape out my window. I’m driving, [...]
Oh what a day! I’ve been trying to get a coherent post together since two days ago when I was delayed for three hours in the Nashville airport. The oddest of circumstances have stymied my efforts at every turn. I’m up near Boston visiting a friend and by a weird twist of events, ended up [...]
How lovely! Go here if you’re interested in a whole album’s worth of music titled I Love the 80s! (Please note, and smile in noting, that this is the eighteen eighties.)
Being in Asheville. My favoritest city in the states. Just as the leaves are changing. And woodsmoke tints the air.
Attending a conference for serious writers (oh yes, my nose is turned sophisticatedly up) of novels.
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Dinner at the Corner Kitchen in the Biltmore Village: Pecan encrusted trout, cold green bean salad, and [...]
