Category Archives: Library Card
Dick Lit
I actually believed I’d made up the literary descriptor ”Dick Lit” but a quick Google proved me behind the curve. But, whatever, I love it, because I’ve become so pissed with the “Chick Lit” thing. I mean, what happened to “Romance Novel?” Allison Pearson’s tremendous “I Don’t … Continue reading
Filed under A Couple of Bucks, Books, Into the Mystic, Library Card
Newspaper Names: Read all About It!
I sport some newspaper genes. Many of my McArthur ancestors were journalists, my father spent his career producing the very paper on which your daily is printed, and, I, in my small way, write a regular column that appears on newsprint. … Continue reading
Filed under Collections, Free, HeeHee, History, How Cool is That?, Library Card
Things I Learned This Week
It was a weather week and an insomnia week. Weather: grey skies, nearby tornadoes, humidity and temps in the sixties. The low sixties. Insomnia: Asleep by four am, though I’d been twitching in bed since midnight, then bolt upright at … Continue reading
Filed under Body, Books, Free, History, Into the Mystic, Library Card, On the Street Where I Live, The 'Ville
Carjacked by Carl Hiassen
I have more lists going on than Santa gets at Christmas. Preparing for our trip to my Nation’s Capital is never easy, involving as it does: organizing the bucks, renewing prescriptions, mailing off aprons, quality time in the laundry room and … Continue reading
Filed under Books, Free, HeeHee, Library Card
A Lifestyle Change and Bits and Bobs
I’m going to have to get up earlier. Thing is, I’ve been a night owl since I learned how to read and find my father’s flashlight. I whiled away my first-grade late nights hiding under the blankets reading Madame Bovary. … Continue reading
Filed under Animals, Body, History, Home, Library Card, On the Street Where I Live, The 'Ville
Apron of the Day and Odds and Ends
Yes, Friends, I went to Sears yesterday and forked out for a new Kenmore sewing machine.I had to: I was feeling as jittery about not having a working machine as I do when I don’t have computer access. It’s nothing … Continue reading
Filed under A yard of fabric, Apron of the Day, Books, Library Card, Needlework
The Grand Georgette Heyer
Oh, you’ve never met Georgette? Come with me and I’ll introduce you. You must get to know her. She’s given me more hours of reading bliss then any other writer, living or dead. I’m not comparing her to other, greater … Continue reading
Filed under Books, Food, History, Into the Mystic, Library Card
Joe Queenans’s “Closing Time”
Just a literary quickie tonight, as the kids set off fireworks and the mosquitoes nip my ankles. I’m sleep-deprived — humidity? The excitement of throwing a tiny dinner party last night? But I thought I’d post a tiny something about … Continue reading
Filed under Free, History, Library Card
Catching Up at C &C
This is going to be a mingy on-the-fly blog post, because it’s been that kinda coupla of days. Yesterday was library day and Post Office day, always a bitchin’ combo. I mailed out a couple of packages and bought those Animal Rescue … Continue reading
Filed under Library Card, Media, Needlework
Dover Books
I can’t remember when I first discovered Dover Books, but it was way back when they published mainly facsimile editions of books whose copyright had lapsed. That’s still true, but it’s just one part of the dazzling Dover catalogue. I’m writing this from my … Continue reading
Filed under Art, How Cool is That?, Library Card, Music, Ten bucks or fewer, Yarn
