May Reading

I began this post a week ago Monday, but then found myself unable to complete it. I’ve spent the ten or twelve days since debating whether I’ll continue blogging at all, wondering about the value…

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Reading Fireside? A Dozen Titles for You. . .

 Only 70 more pages to go in Alice Zeniter’s L’Art de Perdre which I borrowed from the library. A wonderful novel following three generations of a family from pre-Independence Algeria to present-day France. I’ll share more…

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Catching Up . . . Well, Trying To

Okay, I’ve just realized that I didn’t post this, as intended, before we left for Europe last month. . . not only didn’t post it, but didn’t write any accompanying text, just uploaded these photos…

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Random Reading: Plant Life and Paris Romance

I’m going to post these excerpts from “my other blog” here because they’re about books and I think I’d like to keep that material together here rather than just including a link. Hope you don’t…

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Still Here . . .

If you read my other blog, you know that I’ve been weighed down the last few weeks by my mother’s decline toward Hospice care and end-of-life — compounded by mid-term fatigue. The result has been an…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.