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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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A public service announcement! Covid on the rise; a new good feminist...
Home Kit (a Getty image) I’m having also a bit of an existential crisis: I’m running out of new teachable topics (topics this kind of student body will accept as relevant to them or important). I...
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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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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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In a fit of absence of mind we seem to have renovated, improved, fixed this...
ClaryCat some years ago trotting over the tops of bookcases as when I was very young (2nd grade, 7-8) I with cousins once did over the roofs of tenements in the Bronx where we lived Friends and...
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It’s nearly 6 months since my stroke & midsummer
A thrush in the syringa sings ‘Hunger ruffles my wings, fear, lust, familiar things. Death thrusts hard. My sons by hawk’s beak, by stones, trusting weak wings, by cat and weasel, die. Thunder...
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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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Autumn — A good life on line, can it be done?
Front part of my garden — standing close to photograph — muted nature of colors are part of beauty. Red berry bush — standing to the side of house– recalls to my mind Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...
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