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What I Want For My Daughter
My daughter made a nest in the middle of the living room. It consists of lots of pillows, tons of blankets, and a few big pieces of foam my husband brought home from work for her. (He knew she would find something to do with them.) She sits in the middle of it all with her stuffed animals and her books and her cat and plays. She plays because she is ten. It makes me happy. The nest has been there for days and I think she hopes to leave it for the whole winter and I might never get my living room back again, but it makes me…
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Books I Bought
I mentioned recently that I went on a bit of a book buying spree. I ordered them online and they have slowly been trickling in. It makes getting the mail much more exciting. I miss the days of real letters when you never knew what was going to be in your mailbox and sometimes it was something nice, not just bills. Ordering books recreates that feeling. Maybe I should find a pen pal, it would be cheaper. But then I wouldn’t have the books. You can’t have everything. On that insightful thought let’s see what I got. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. I mentioned this book…
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This and That
Blue skies and colorful leaves make me happy. It is a pity autumn is so short. I love the cool, crisp days, the smell of the leaves, the sound they make as they crunch underfoot, and the fact that a cup of tea always sounds like a good idea. Of course, a cup of tea sounds good to me even when it is 95 out but it definitely more comfortable to drink it in the fall! Unfortunately, this weekend was gloomy and occasionally rainy plus my husband had a nasty cold so we didn’t go for the hike I wanted to take, but it was still pleasant. I made cream…
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Yesterday, When I Was Young
I looked in the mirror yesterday and saw my mother looking back at me. It was horrifying. Not because I hate my mother, I hasten to add, but because my mother is older and I am young. Or so I thought until I looked in the mirror last night. I turned 45 this month (anyone who thought they were reading a blog written by someone young and cool, I am sorry.) and I think the problem is that in my head I am still in my mid-twenties. Sometimes I find myself talking to people in that age group and I feel like I fit in until I look around and…
- books, Connie Willis, Dorothy L. Sayers, e.m. delafield, Jane Austen, Jerome K. Jerome, Mollie Panter-Downes, WWII
In Case of Emergency
I was lying in bed the other night wondering what five books I would take with me if I was stranded on a deserted island. As you do. Of course, this led me to wonder how I ended up on the island. Was my ship captured by pirates and after I spurned the captain’s advances, I was put ashore where I stood gallantly waving farewell with my trunk by my side? (the trunk has to be there to contain the books.) Was my ship broken apart on the rocks after a day and night of a storm such as was never known in that latitude before? I made it ashore…
