May I present my 1983 A-Team coloring book. I expect many of you weren't born during that time; however, the A-Team was one of our favorite TV shows back in the day. My favorite character was Murdock, hands down.


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Once when Doc was at the University of Chicago he had love trouble and he had worked too hard. He thought it would be nice to take a very long walk. He put on a little knapsack and he walked through Indiana and Kentucky and North Carolina and Georgia clear to Florida. He walked among farmers and mountain people, among the swamp people and fishermen ( Read more... )

I've increased my personal Harriet Hosmer collection by four books:

Boston and Boston People in 1850, by Harriet Hosmer

Harriet Hosmer: Letters and Memories, by Hosmer and Cornelia Carr

Harriet Hosmer: American Sculptor, by Dolly Sherwood

Patricia Cronin: Harriet Hosmer, Lost and Found, (catalog raisonné ( Read more... )

I finally finished Eclipse, which I started in the hospital when I went into labor, hoping to bore the baby out of my uterus. I mean, by the time I hit page 90, the most exciting thing that happened was that Bella made spaghetti for Charlie and it didn't come out very well. However, my birth plan strategy might have actually had the opposite result ( Read more... )

I went into Berk's on Thayer Street tonight with the intention of finding fun shoes, preferably Awesome Boots. Unfortunately, most of the store was dedicated to trends that were popular in 1987. Yes, there were a dozen pairs of boots, but they were all approximating those worn by Mona on "Who's the Boss?", and I don't roll that way ( Read more... )

After a looooong day of travel that began at 3am and is now finally mostly over (at 9:30 pm my time), I've reached Victoria. I'll admit that through most of the flight from Seattle I was distracted from the magnificent scenery of the San Juan islands and the Olympic Mountain range by the fear that Canadian Customs would find the half-eaten bag of ( Read more... )

Dispatches from Smuttynose Island“a beautiful smooth beach (very rare in the islands) would make this a most desirable bathing spot, but now, through the transparent water, from 5 to 25 feet deep we see horrid jaws, shark bones, and occasionally huge dead bodies of immense sharks that have been killed and thrown as useless by the fishermen to be ( Read more... )

So, the hero of Behemoth, Bokulla, is wandering in the desert searching for the mammoth. And he runs out of food. He's nearly dead, right? And then he sees a hawk flying away with a partridge. And decides that his best chance of getting a meal is to chase the hawk for like three days and try to beat it out of the air with his cudgel. The chase ( Read more... )

valancy_s and I both needed to get out this afternoon, so of course we went down to the public library, where I let Moira run free. She disappeared for a minute and came back to where we were lounging on the floor in beanbag chairs--she was carrying a paperback novel and making her excited pre-talking Sounds.

The title of the book? Running Scared, just one ( Read more... )

Well, I finished Deathly Hallows on Sunday afternoon and I have to say I am STILL feeling drained and sort of hung-over, even today. Some ( thoughts )