Apologies in advance for how emo I am about to be, but I was going through old photo files on my computer this evening looking for pics I want to make prints of, and I found the photos of the last vacation I had on Nantucket, a week up there in late May 2008 with innostrantsa right after our 10-year reunion at Smith. (The long weekend in September 2009 for my ( Read more... )

Happy Solstice, everyone. It was too cloudy here to see the lunar eclipse last night, but I kept vigil for a while anyway (aka I was up way too late in the final stretches of the Xmas knitting frenzy.)

For me, no Solstice/Christmas is complete without Susan Cooper. When I was 10, the Elves1 brought me a box set of The Dark Is Rising books, and I ( Read more... )