It’s been busy ’round here. But we’re not just changing beds and cooking meals and washing dishes. We’ve had some lively conversations, consumed numerous bottles of very decent wine, eaten some wonderful meals together,…
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Friday afternoon Daughter #3 arrived, Saturday morning two of her friends, Saturday afternoon another one, then Sunday morning her husband. Shortly after that, Daughter #1 unpacked, with her husband and our granddaughter, and we all…
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We’ve had grey day after grey day after grey day here. We’ve tried to sympathize with the crazy heat toppling the rest of the country, but we haven’t had a day above 24 degrees Celsius…
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Glancing at my stats for search words today, I was amused and a bit guilty to see that one or two folks are coming here looking for something about “Mother of the Bride dress.” Those…
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Many of you who took a 1st-year English course — called something like Composition & Rhetoric or Writing for University — will perhaps remember working your way through an anthology of essays — to which…
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