I am back at the Undisclosed Location (housesitting for friends in Western Mass.) where I so happily wrote large chunks of The Privilege of the Sword.  I am blissfully happy - and doing as little Social Networking (or even email) as possible, while I work on New Novel.  I am a Creature of Extremes.

However, I need your help:

A teenage girl in my ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about the way girls in the early 20th century of a certain class/ethnic group all had nicknames of a certain type.  Inspired by today's NYTimes obituary for Aurelia Clifton Brown, born 1925, Ardmore, Pennsylvania - known as "Thistle"!

Ardmore (which happens to be the name of the street I grew up on) is right near Bryn Mawr ( ( Read more... )