Old Farm Bell

We had the pleasure of visiting a lovely home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland last weekend. A classmate from Captain Cliff’s Naval Academy days had built a home on a peninsula on Harris Creek of the Choptank River. The location, previously a corn farm, was beautiful, with osprey and bald eagles soaring above. The owners are [...]

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Clematis Window

I had a vision of this flowering window a few Springs ago when I planted a tiny sprig in the narrow rocky strip of land along the fence border. I was hoping to see blossoms through the window panes, instead of merely weathered fence boards. My dream of loveliness has come true this Spring and I [...]

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G.K. Chesterton’s England

I have been listening to G.K. Chesteron’s “A Short History of England” from librivox.org and am quite enjoying it; so much so, that I think I should read it in text, as there is so much to savor that is not possible when briefly hearing it, or when missing a word. However, I think the [...]

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A Jane Austen Saturday Night

Oh Glory! PBS is having another complete Jane Austen night. I have enjoyed every moment of this series. It has been so wonderful. She lived more than 200 years ago and wrote only six novels before she died at the young age of 42 - but what an influence she has had on women … and English literature … and drama … and even the Internet. When I first discovered the Internet, almost a decade ago, the first genre of web sites I encountered was the Jane Austen type of fan clubs that existed to celebrate every nook and cranny of Jane’s England. For now, I’m off to watch the tellie - to see the galloping horses, the lovely English dancing and the charming young ladies and men, the exquisite costumes, and the English countryside.

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Travelling Route 66 with Gulliver

What a depressing ending! Imagine returning home after, was it eleven years, and your family still loves you, but you hate and detest them all, plus your friends too. For the love of horses! And I never even knew that I was a Yahoo too. I thought Yahoos were people that I labeled as bumbling incompetents. I didn’t know I was one. And so are you, dear reader. If you don’t believe me - read the book: Gulliver’s Travels .

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