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Thanks to a mention in Andy Howell’s blog, I’ll soon be spending time here… …at the Maison Willert, in Lescun, on the French side of the Pyrenees. I’ve got my Kev Reynolds. I’ve got my Carte de Randonnées. I’ve got … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2011
Thanks to MR for letting me know about this: More here about A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy at the Morgan Library. … Continue reading
I’ve been wasting time (and nearly missing a business call), playing with Xtranormal, a site that lets you make your own “movies.” Yesterday, I finished Randall Fuller’s superb From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed American Literature. There is … Continue reading
How cool is this? Cheap, yes. Easy to carry around, yes. But it’s the access, stupid. … Continue reading
No walking this past weekend. My broken toe was pretty good, but H decided to emulate her father (historically unwise), and she matched me with a tender tootsie of her own. As far as we can remember, these are the … Continue reading
The other thing, beside making music, that I most regret not being able to do. Marginally less impossible to manage in the time available, I suppose. Then again, I get seasick. A shot from our glorious days in Maine. … Continue reading
I’ll be heading north this weekend for what I hope will be a couple of days on this route, which weather kept me off three years ago. This time I won’t be solo, but one of a trio, with H … Continue reading
I’ve been in Concord for a week or so, shuttling sweet B and coddling a broken toe. (Dramatic and sensational circumstances … a Pyrex container fell out of the fridge and zeroed on on the unoffending appendage, turning its elegant, … Continue reading
Maine was spectacular and the visit too short. Terrific friends. Gorgeous weather. Boothbay Harbor dancing in the sun. Top-notch boat-watching for this frustrated sailor. Lobstah! And a rockbound reading picnic. Wicked good. Now we’re in New Hampshire with sweet B … Continue reading
I had a difficult time settling back in after the New Zealand trip back in February and early March. Great holidays always want to keep on rolling (Newton has a law about this, I think), and this was one of … Continue reading