Elizabeth George’s Careless in Red

Too bad — I’m falling behind, then playing catch-up, not able to give books the attention they deserve. Still, I’m not making any big claims with this blog, simply trying to keep a record of…

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Happy Birthday, Rhiannon

Happy Birthday to my beautiful, sensitive, funny, ambitious, hard-on-herself, contagiously fun but also occasionally fierce, thoughtful, engaged and engaging daughter (no, I didn’t come close to capturing her, but that’s a quick sketch). This is…

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Christmas Knits

Our Christmas giving has become much more streamlined over the past few years, but I still fuss quite a bit over what to get our kids. While I want my gift to be appreciated and…

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Stash it, like Georgia

About this time last year, I was just finishing a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe in which I was impressed and surprised and somewhat bemused to learn that whenever O’Keeffe bought something new, for her personal…

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Exercising the Nana Prerogative: the Baby Pics

Some holiday pics of our new little girl. Above, she’s sleeping in her dad’s arms and, bottom left, on her mom’s lap. On the right, her Aunt Rhiannon finally gets up the nerve to hold…

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Copyright

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