Sun pours down like honey

Up to Mystic for a night and back, the weather so warm we swore it was summer but for the mostly bare tree branches. A perfect getaway, too...

Pinkalicious, the name of a popular children's book that I ordered for the library for one of my four year old "regulars" who...

Amazing how it just happens, Spring, just like that. One minute gray, the next - whump! You've got forsythia and magnolias blooming a...

She's looking good for an old gal. Fourteen and a half which translates into what in people years? I followed her around the yard fore...

A break in the Spring clean-up of the yard. It's actually bloomed up quite a bit since the week or so ago this picture was taken. I...

If you happen to be in NYC on Saturday, April 26th, there will be a launch for the Spring 2008 issue of Feile-Festa , a literary arts journa...

The ever elusive and camera shy Mr. Grimshaw was not pleased with me - it took about twelve shots to get anything of him at all, especially ...

What's more powerful - the imprint on your mind from a book or a movie? Reading Black Juice , short stories by Margo Lanagan, (note her...

The real deal, not Madonna's version. I love walking into my son's room and seeing the strange assemblages of creatures, old Hallowe...

Reading http://nyrb.typepad.com/classics/ and surprised to see a piece about the Paris bookstore Shakespeare & Company http://www.shake...

I know I saw buds on the forsythia, but we are still clutched in gray here. Currently reading: Go With Me by Castle Freeman, Jr. Recently vi...

Still sick, clearing out a basket of papers and lists of books to get to: Alice Hoffman's Skylight Confessions - one of my favorite t...

"...where always it's Spring) and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves."

"Eggs are eggs," he barked. Yup, the dog thinks we are being far too artsy- well, you know, with these Easter eggs. Especially whe...

Mr. Grimshaw now has rear legs and is working on the front ones. According to our worthy dime purchase of a used book, Frogs, once his fron...

I write more poetry in summer than other seasons. Perhaps it is because in summer my husband removes the giant tropical plant that has been ...

This is the most inane thing I have seen in a long time - so of course I have watched it a couple of times.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dt...

I never get the whole celebrity thing - those contests where you can win lunch with someone famous. I think why would I want to eat with the...

An HBO special, Reading Your Heart Out , was just on (catch it if you can) on young teens (none over 14) reading poems they have written abo...