May 1 is supposed to be some Communist deal, but when I was a little girl we had our own little ritual that was supposed to honor Our Lady at the start of her month. On the first day of May, we went out and picked flowers, tucked them into homemade paper cornucopias, and took [...]
After all kinds of events, including simply celebrating Easter, I'm trying to return to a normal schedule of exercise. This led me to the entirely motionless activity of finding beautiful pictures of walkways on the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC website. All pictures are in the public domain. I just want to walk into [...]
This is not about me! What is regret? I’m trying to figure out the ‘exact’ meaning of regret. If you had feelings of regret and they were somehow expunged, what would you feel instead? Google says it is a “complex and painful emotion” that stems from imagining a different outcome of past action — or [...]
In the last month I’ve read some very odd books, or an eclectic selection of perfectly normal books, take your pick. I started with “Laura Spinney’s utterly engrossing Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global [which] tells the story in magnificent detail” of how the Indo-European group of languages got its start. The quote is from the [...]
Last week I traveled for a while and read two and a half new books. I also enjoyed leaving my computer alone for five days. ; ) The first book was The Great Passion by James Runcie. It sounds like some regency love story but, no. It is a historical novel about the writing of [...]
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