Some seriously needed mid-week cuteness…
Dunc guarding his beloved, precious bone bone.
Daily Diversion #223: Guard Dog
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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Goodbye, Lauren Bacall!
This week keeps getting worse, celebrity-wise.
Lauren Bacall: 16 September, 1924-12 August 2014.
“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”-Lauren Bacall, By Myself and Then Some
Writers in Art: Josephine Turpin Washington
Josephine Turpin Washington. What a fascinating, mostly forgotten woman.
Josephine Turpin Washington, 1891, by Irving Garland Penn.
Daily Diversion #222: Play Ball
Game four in the Ohio Cup: Indians vs. Reds at Great American Ball Park, 7 August
Cleveland vs. Cincinnati
“Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!”-Babe Ruth
Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati
[Book Nerd Links] 100 Actual Titles of Real Eighteenth-Century Novels
100 Actual Titles of Real Eighteenth-Century Novels [courtesy The Toast]*
Do hurry back and share your favourite(s) in the comments section.
*Eighteenth-Century novels are the best.
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Billie Burke/Rabindranath Tagore Mashup
Billie Burke (born 7 August 1884) in Overland Monthly, February 1909
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”-Rabindranath Tagore (died 7 August 1941)
Shopping for the Bookworm: Nancy Drew Edition
Daily Diversion #221: Chuck is a Naughty Girl
Naughty Chuck, caught sleeping in my husband’s shirt drawer.
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”-James Herriot, James Herriot’s Cat Stories
Writing Wisdom from Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun Quote
Knut Hamsun, circa 1890
Happy Birthday, Mr. Shelley!
Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet and beloved of Mary, was born on 4 August 1792:
Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Amelia Curran, 1819
“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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