Today (31 January 2024) is the second anniversary of my mother’s death. She’d been living with us for over a year and near the end receiving in-home hospice care. Prior to her moving in with us, we lived several states away and had only visited a few times over the years since we’d moved away. […]
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Persuading Miss Mary by Leenie Brown. Leenie B. Books (November 28, 2010). ISBN: B081XBGKGW. Persuading Miss Mary by Leenie Brown is the fourth book in the Marrying Elizabeth series. So, if you haven’t read the preceding books you may need to know that Jane is married to Bingley, Elizabeth is married to Darcy, and Lydia […]
I try to be normal. I want to normal. To live like I imagine everyone else does. Go about my daily tasks. Work. Clean house. Do the laundry. Sleep — oh, sleep … I miss that most of all believe it or not. I’ve got several health problems that all involve pain. Migraines. Fibromyalgia. Chronic […]
Highland Knits: Knitwear Inspired by the Outlander Series by Interweave Editors, Interweave (April 28, 2016) ISBN: 978-1632504593, Trade Paperback, 112 pages. List Price: $22.99 (Amazon: $15.63 / Kindle: $11.99). I loved the knitted items that I saw watching season one of Outlander so I was naturally interested in seeing what would be in Highland Knits. […]
Tudor Roses by Alice Starmore. ISBN: 978-1606600474. Hardcover. Calla Editions; Revised Expanded edition (November 8, 2013). There are a couple of things that I can tell you right off. First, this edition has no sweaters for men. So the Henry VII and Henry VIII sweaters are missing. Second several of the women’s sweaters have been […]
This post is going to be a bit of a whine. We’ve been dealing with a lot of health issues this year and it seems that things get better and then they get not so very much better — meaning things slide downhill. I was just congratulating myself that I’d made it through Capclave okay […]
A Jane Austen Devotional by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Compiled and written by Steffany Woolsey. Cloth bound hardcover. ISBN: 978-1400319534. 224 pages. Thomas Nelson; Gift edition (January 10, 2012). (Amazon: $10.76 / Kindle: $8.79) Each day of the year has a quote from one of the novels of Jane Austen or from one of her letters […]