A fascinating read, with something important to teach every writer, fiction or non. “You weren’t bitten by a dog,” one nurse told me. “You were mauled by one.” It took me months to recover, and that gave me time to think. I thought about my body, which hurt in ways I’d never felt—not just in worse ways,…
…Younger sons cannot marry where they like. …“Is this,” thought Elizabeth, “meant for me?” –Jane Austen At the time she had wondered whether the remark had held a warning and the suspicion had caused her some embarrassment which she had attempted to hide by turning the conversation into a pleasantry. But the memory of the…
Read more James obtrudes bloody murder into the pleasant, ordered world of Elizabeth and Darcy
Dana sez, Fascinating discussion (video+transcript) on the Hungarian election, with a lot of details that never made it into the Western media. You’ll love the zebras. (Paul Krugman) These are the sweetest little videos. Love the one with the frog. (h/t The Kid Should See This) Quote: “The Epstein files offer the public an education…
April 2022. [internal chukar monologue]: “WTH. It’s April 7th, people, and instead of building a nest and making babies I’m sitting here getting snowed on while Crazy Lady takes pictures of me through her window. Enough to make a bird fly south again.” [internal Dana monologue]: “I looked up and he was gone, leaving this…
On Wednesday this showed up in my feed. It’s a great song but it’s been a nonstop earworm ever since. I see no need to suffer alone, so here you go. Along with the original, of course.
I love a good acknowledgements page at the back of a novel, where the author tells us where they got all their ideas. I try to write them for mine, too. Here’s the one I wrote for The Harvey Girl. It’s six pages long in the book, and it ain’t short here, either. I hope…
I’m sort of surprised I finished this book, as I am not a fan of the Earl of Essex, and I almost put it down anyway when the story opens with the hero coming off a month-long drunk. Yawn. But I persevered, and John Lawley is a fun character to follow around, in spite of…
Artemis II found itself in a solar eclipse while circumnavigating the moon on April 6. (Huge h/t to NASA, with many more photos here)Dana sez, US Senator and former astronaut Mark Kelly’s Facebook feed during the Artemis II mission was a delightful follow, and Fix the News has a long section on the mission with…
Harking back to a walking trip I made to France back in April 2015. The walk took us over a section of The Camino, also known as one of many routes European pilgrims and penitents took to Santiago de Compostela, where Saint James is allegedly buried and where he allegedly performed miracles for supplicants. This…
This one always makes me tear up a little.
