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We finally had our first snow last night and now it is cold. Didn't get above 20 degrees F today, but that didn't stop us from picki...

I figured I should do at least one post for Nonfiction November before November becomes December. So, I am combining some of the prompts int...

What a mild Fall we are having in Colorado. No snow yet, not even on Halloween. I've been slowly putting the garden to bed. Geraniums an...

Our trip to Gettysburg in mid-October was everything I had hoped it would be.  We stayed at the Gettysburg Hotel , right smack dab in the mi...

While I was rereading the excellent bio of John Adams by David McCullough, I was overcome with the urge to reread, in tandem, the first book...

 "...one of the most stupendous scenes in nature" Thomas Jefferson Last week, after the JASNA AGM in Baltimore celebrating Jane Au...

It's been a while since I last posted, mostly because I am in the middle of a couple of big books, and I generally wait until I'm do...

Fifteen Wild Decembers , by Karen Powell, is the story of the Brontë family with Emily as the first-person narrator. I've read a lot of ...

  Aboard Zodiac, Puget Sound, WA The Pacific Northwest is always such a fun, interesting place to visit.  For this year's trek to the Wo...

Happy September--commence the Pumpkin Spice season.  I have never had a pumpkin spice latte (does not appeal) but I love pumpkin bread, pump...