Project Gutenberg is a wondrous place to visit if you are the kind of person who needs words to flow across eyes, sometimes without much regard for the actual topic, so to speak. You know, the people who read the milk carton and cereal box at the breakfast table and learn to spell homogenized and [...]
Long ago when I visited New Hampshire and climbed the mountain known as South Pack Monadnock I watched chipmunks run around on the rocks there. Chipmunks often run in a straight line, and then suddenly turn 90º and dart in the new direction for a bit. Rinse and repeat. That’s my brain this morning. For example, [...]
The Shy Museum Goer, Diane Tucker, has a new post about the Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky, a pioneer in abstract painting. The included pictures are all quite different and surprising. I fell in love with the painting Riding Couple which is very different from the pictures that Kandinsky is best known for. I fell in [...]
It’s February and I can’t believe it. If I blink I expect that February will be gone, seeing that it is a short month anyway. I think part of my trouble is that we don’t actually have a 2026 calendar on the wall. Normally, both my husband and I grab calendars from church and then [...]
Like many people I’m shivering inside my house these days and doing things that seem suitable for this — much colder than necessary — weather. (And I’m not an AI. I hear that AI is fond of dashes but sometimes they are the right punctuation!) For instance, I’m cooking special things. Years ago, when my [...]
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