I normally get to go to the American Craft Council show in Baltimore when it comes to town and marvel at the fantastic work there.  As much as I enjoy attempting to create beautiful bits and bobs, appreciating other folks’ acts of beauty is what it’s all about. But the snow interceded, and I decided […]

I didn’t spend all of my time tending the pets while Scott was away.  I also shoveled a lot of ice.  And read.  And watched a strange variety of films.  And I apparently spent a fair amount of time at work, though I’m a bit fuzzy on that bit.  And when I was neither shoveling […]

Originally added by Rachel   So I’m a bookseller for a living. Generally I love it–it’s one of those jobs you fall into to pay the rent as a starving English major and for some people, like me, it becomes an obsession. Er, career, I think they call it. But sometimes bookselling makes you feel […]

Juno came to stay with us last weekend.  We had way more than our share of fun.  Let me give you a rundown. Juno finally got to meet Scott and the pets.   Kayo tried to be fierce, but realized that fierceness would get in the way of being spoiled.  Speedwell gave up the scaredy-cat routine […]

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. This is one of those classics, you know, and everyone is supposed to read it.  Somehow, as is true of many classics, I sailed through my extensive liberal education without reading this book in class.  So I read it after reading The Burning of Bridget Cleary, figuring two true-crime […]