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Review: Knitting, a novel by Anne Bartlett

I’m intrigued by the communities that women create for themselves, and so I often read books centered around crafts, especially the crafts that I also love. Knitting is one of the ways that I bring meditation and calmness into my life. So, I read a lot of books with knitting as one of the central […]

How to turn a staunch Democrat away from the party…

Warning: This is going to be a political rant. If you’re Republican, come back tomorrow when I’ve gotten over my snit a bit. I’ve been a Democrat since I could vote. There was a while when I changed my party to Republican; but that was to vote for the least bad one in the primary, […]

The last week has been a bit of a strain.  Not that anything really awful has happened.  There’s been the usual stress of gearing up for the publication of all the zines on September 1st.  Just the usual stuff of pinging all the reviewers and seeing where we stand.  Not to bad except I realized […]

Review: The Darcy Connection by Elizabeth Aston

I’m evidently still in a Austen mood. Prior to vacation, I finished reading The Darcy Connection by Elizabeth Aston. This one, I can give my whole-hearted endorsement. Aston definitely has a feel for the original characters and brings that into her follow-on stories even when the original characters are only on the pages for short […]

Review: An Unequal Marriage or Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later by Emma Tennant

I did a lot of reading while Hyperion was driving on our nearly cross-country road trip. I enjoy light reading that I can take up and put down as the mood takes me. I’ve also been on a big Jane Austen binge including the follow-on novels. Before leaving on our trip I stopped at the […]

Where do I get that day expander?

The problem with going to a convention or taking a vacation is that life just keeps on going while you’re gone. So, when you get back you don’t start fresh, you start about one thousand feet back from the starting line. When we got back from Denver, we returned the car and picked up our […]

Still on the road…

NOTE:  We forgot to post last night when we got in.  We were so excited to be home, we unpacked dragged in the bags and just went to bed.  This morning we got up returned the rental car, got the mail we’d had held, watered the garden (lost the lettuce while we were gone), and […]

Homeward Bound

Greetings from Salina, Kansas.  Yes, we are on the road again, foot loose and fancy free, with the hum of our tires as background music! Getting up wasn’t easy after a late late night … I think I’m getting older at a rate somewhat faster than can be explained by orbital mechanics.  But we finally […]