Sallyjo suggested this great meme, and I was excited to participate: post a photo of a bookshelf that is revealing about your self. Well, really, this is pretty darn easy for me.  I apologize for the flash-induced greasiness.  But there are the opening shelves of our library, and the beginning of my Celtic Studies collection.  […]

On the way home from work today, the woman sitting next to me on Metro asked me about the needles I was using to knit my kilt hose (wooden Options), and we struck up quite a conversation about knitting, Britain, knitting in Britain, kilts, and the like.  And, as if that weren’t good enough, the […]

Last New Year, I decided to take a long break from buying books.   And, not so coincidentally, during the last year I bought an iPod with a lot of memory using my unspent book money, and then developed an obsessive audiobook habit, supported entirely by my local library.  My perennial dilemma–knit or read on the […]

Before I blather on about unimportant minutia . . . my friend Scott Hull is in desperate need of a liver again.  He is now in the number one slot of the liver transplant list at John’s Hopkins.   His cousin Marcus donated a big healthy chunk of liver to Scott last fall, but transplants don’t […]

For anyone keeping score, it may seem as if I’m not all that close to this year’s goal of reading a large portion of the unread books in our library while simultaneously avoiding purchasing books.  Well, we’re nearing the end of 2007 and I’ve actually done quite well.  I bought a few books that were […]