Let’s get this Friday started!
#inmygarden
The Rock Garden The Duchess’s Garden Meanwhile, inside the kitchen window… But it was a good little producer while it lasted!
#thiswritinglife
From the Brooklyn Public Library’s website: Brooklyn Public Library is celebrating our country’s 250th anniversary the best way we know how: with a thoughtful, surprising, irresistible booklist. Organized by genre and category of interest, this all-ages list is a deep dive on the stories, voices and moments that shaped America. Selected by our expert librarians—with…
This is the song the poets don’t sing.
[Reposting this because of all the hoohah about The Odyssey. Penelope’s voice is every bit as important as her husband’s (and I would argue far more worthy of listening to than any nasty thing their son has to say) and Claire North’s trilogy is inspired, hilarious, heartbreaking, and mesmerizing. Prepare to binge.] This is the…
Lagniappe Sunday
Heh. (h/t Laughing Squid) I’m an optimist for the most part, not a doom-and-gloomer, but I also read history for fun. Hard to ignore the parallels between 1929 and 2026. (Heather Cox Richardson’s 250 to 250.) Quote: “Dishearteningly, but perhaps inevitably, [the priest] began to speak of the Great Replacement Theory. ‘There are places where…
The Roadhouse Report – July 2026
An excerpt… “Guns are noisy and smelly and too often it takes too long for the guy that gets shot to die. Now, a knife to the throat, if the guy who’s holding it knows what he’s doing, is quick and quiet and so long as you stay out of range…
Let’s get this Friday started!
My first year in Lathrop Dorm at UA Fairbanks, there wasn’t a single dorm room door from behind which this album was not playing. And there’s this. (Spoiler alert: Her version is better.)
#thiswritinglife
This just in from the Authors Guild: The Authors Guild welcomes Amazon’s decision to extend Kindle Direct Publishing’s 70 percent ebook royalty rate to titles priced up to $12.99, up from the longstanding $9.99 ceiling. The change is effective July 7. This move also brings Amazon closer in line with its competitors: Apple Books and…
I was drawn to “Tomates a la Creme”…
A collection of essays on the art of cooking well for one’s friends. On his kitchen beginnings …as with sex, politics, and religion, so with cooking; by the time I began finding out about it for myself, it was too late to ask my parents. They had failed to instruct me, and I would punish…
Lagniappe Sunday
Quote: “…we discovered that one of the Bosnian pines on the mountain is Europe’s oldest-known living tree dated with tree rings: more than 1,075 years old…We named the oldest Bosnian pine Adonis, after the Greek god for beauty and desire.” (h/t The Best of Journalism) Quote: “So last year, after the Trump administration shut down NOAA’s official climate…
