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Fraught mornings, or on Renewing our passports, and other people’s taxes;...
Tazzi — December 2014, probably around 19 Dear friends and readers, It’s been three weeks since I last wrote, and very slowly, painfully, not clear if at all truly, Clarycat is improving somewhat. The...
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I on myself must try to live
My daughter, Laura, at the National Building Museum, earlier this week for there is no help for it. This is my 11th summer without him, the 5th since I can no longer drive at night. I can’t go far by...
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We are now looking forward to our trip to the UK
Izzy on a San Diego beach, at the ComicCon, San Diego, a week ago or so Dear Friends and readers, It was lonely hard week for me when Izzy was away because the stress over the seemingly stalled...
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Izzy finishes Gorey’s Pomegranates; Clara Tornvall, The Autists: Women on the...
Gorey’s Pomegranates: I know it’s blurry and dark, but still invite all to find all the cats you can — there are many unexpected ones A Going Away Blog Dear friends and readers, As you can see, Izzy...
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Adventures in Oxford and London; Meeting Friends
This is a photo of the Somerville College Library, Oxford, from a southeast angle Dear friends and readers, Apart from the wonders of the Women in Trollope conference at Somerville College, Oxford,...
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I say very little that’s cheerful, so …
One of today’s books whose subtitle should be Rape, Class & Gender in late 18th century NYC Dear friends and readers, Prompted by the cheerful news that the gov’t will not shutdown for the next...
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“At 77, it is time to be in earnest …”
Me and Clarycat, spring 2013, photo taken by Jim Dear Friends and Readers, If I’m not mistaken, this was the hardest birthday I’ve had to get through since Jim died, 10 years ago — 2013, when I was...
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Winter Solstice — Limitations
Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb, bereaved mother & head cook, Paul Giametti as Paul Hunham, classics teacher, and Dominic Sessa as Angus Tully, student left at the Barton [Deerfield] Academy...
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Hemorrhagic stroke
Dear friends and reader, Here’s why I’ve not posted for weeks: I wrote this to a literary women, Anne Boyd Rioux, in answer to something she wrote to me on her substack newsletter: I had sent one of...
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Recovering — state of home library
Bookcase bought for enclosed porch: DVDs, notes on TV and theater movies, books on films, sequels, and translations (mostly of Austen & Trollope, section just by Andrew Davies) Dear friends and...
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Brief Update: I won’t be going away after all
My stationary indoor bike Friends and readers, I am relieved because I am not yet up to it. I cannot as yet walk outside with my rollaton that easily. So I would not be able to take public...
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The Road Ahead
Coronado Island, California, where Izzy, Laura & Rob stayed — it is gorgeous, the hotel luxurious, though the beach was not for swimming/bathing Dear friends and readers, I’ve not blogged here for...
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Dear friends and visitors, It seems to me Izzy’s low register here conveys a complex group of emotions, and the tune as beat out on her keybosrds, delicate with bell-like chimes. Here are the lyrics...
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