Vacation! Vacation! Vacation!

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”-Rumi

I’ll be on vacation for nine days, starting tomorrow. The Chef and I are road-tripping it to Texas to visit some of my in-laws. Several posts are pre-scheduled, so the blog won’t be on radio silence whilst I am away. Answering comments might be a bit trickier, but I’ll do my best.

Beachy Clara Bow

Beachy Clara Bow

“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows ❤

“Dot, Dot! What a Girl I’ve Got!”*: The “Dot” (Dorothy Lamour) Blogathon is Next Month!

It’s not too late to sign up for the 1st Annual “Dot” Blogathon.

Dorothy Lamour Blogathon

Dorothy Lamour Blogathon

*Yes, that is an obscure reference to an episode of The Golden Girls.

[Shopping for the Bookworm] Literary Lovers #4: Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf

In anticipation of Saint Valentine’s Day, we are sharing a few wee love-themed shopping guides.

Some legendary literary love affairs were more successful than others, but who are we to judge? At any rate, we’ll save such musings for another day.

Today’s couple: Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf

[Shopping for the Bookworm] Literary Lovers #3: Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

In anticipation of Saint Valentine’s Day, we are sharing a few wee love-themed shopping guides.

Some legendary literary love affairs were more successful than others, but who are we to judge? At any rate, we’ll save such musings for another day.

Today’s couple: Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Time

This is my response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Time.

Mercer-Williams House Museum

*Mercer-Williams House Museum. Savannah, Georgia.

*The Mercer-Williams House Museum is, of course, closely associated with John Berendt’s overrated 1994 non-fiction book, **Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It also has a rather loose association to Johnny Mercer, which is more up the alley of my interests.

**Thus, the rather tenuous association with this week’s challenge.

Hey, Dickens! It’s Your Birthday!

Ye Olde Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812:

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities