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.
So a while ago at the Poisoned Pen I pinch hit as host for Barbara Peters, who was slugging back Singapore Slings in the bar at the Raffles Hotel in, you guessed it, Singapore at the time. We’re still not speaking to her. The guest du soir was Paula Lafferty, of the bestseller The Once…
I’ve been doing a considerable amount of research into life in the American West in 1890, which reminded me of these two great reads. I simply disappeared between the covers of this book. Hilarious, heart-breaking and oh so real, this isn’t just a story about a cowboy and the cowboying way of life, it’s about…
Quote: “Bullshit is language, statistical figures, data graphics, and other forms of presentation intended to persuade by impressing and overwhelming a reader or listener, with a blatant disregard for truth and logical coherence.” Dana sez, “Calling bullshit” is aka “teaching critical thinking,” which imo we should start teaching from kindergarten on. (h/t Sue and Stewart) Quote:…
Welcome to the Land of the Standing Up Rocks, aka the Chiricahua National Monument, a collection of standing stones worn by wind and weather into weird and wonderful shapes. Those mountains in the distance are the Dragoon Mountains, where the Chiricahua Apache leader Cochise’s Stronghold is. He died there and his people rode their horses…
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