Reading, Writing, Working, Playing

  Jane Austen and Crime , by Susannah Fullerton, was such a pleasure to read. Not only did I learn about crime and punishment during the Geo...

I am excited to participate in Nonfiction November again this year. Last year was all about the Civil War and Gettysburg in particular. Thi...

I put off posting because I have only one book finished since my last post, but then I realized that I don't have to only post about boo...

What's the difference between Fall and Autumn? Nothing, except how they are spelled!  Like just about everyone else, I love Fall and it ...

I haven't finished anything since my last post, so here's a Top Ten Tuesday instead :) The theme is lovely -- books that conjure ha...

I was able to harvest two beautiful Cinderella pumpkins, which are now gracing my hearth. I had to pick them before the squirrels started to...

Victoria, BC - Inner Harbor I was in Victoria four years ago for the JASNA AGM of 2022 , and I fell in love with this lovely city on Vancouv...

 Just back from two weeks and a day on the road. Our destination was Victoria, BC for the annual Classic Boat Show, but we decided to take f...

  Queen's Play is the second book in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles series. This time, Francis Crawford of Lymond, travels to ...

Yes, this is just how I see myself! I enjoyed reading everyone's Top Ten Tuesday posts last week so much that I decided to do my own......