Learning from Trollope

Ah, the joys of air travel.  It was a wonderful weekend in New York, a real reunion, full of family members I haven’t seen in months and even some I haven’t seen in years. I’m so glad I went, and my still reduced stamina wouldn’t have given me...

Adding to the "TBR"

Every Christmas, we give each other books.  Lots of books.  It’s actually become the best part of the gift giving, to see who came up with what, to see if any of us have given each other the same book (it’s happened twice).  I got a good haul this year, so...

A Meme about Me, and an Award

Lookie, lookie: my new award, and given to me by my friend, the writer DJ Kirkby of Chez Aspie fame. It comes with a challenge, though, so unless you’re interested in reading  10 honest things about me, look away now….1.  Although I have played the violin...

A Call to Arms (Of Sorts)

There was a great item in yesterday’s Guardian:       “Wales has clambered aboard the Obama bandwagon with the disclosure that one of the US president-elect’s schoolteachers was Welsh. Bill Messer, who left to live in Hawaii 40 years ago, can lay...