Everyone was a child once, even serious wordsmiths. Let’s get started:
A poised Gertrude Stein:
Gertrude Stein at three
An uncomfortable looking Franz Kafka:
Franz Kafka
Images of Renowned Authors as Children, Part Two
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Daily Diversion #192: Rascally Cupcake Thief
“I am sorry for stealing your fancy cupcakes, Momma. I promise I won’t do it again!”
Cupcake Thief
Daily Diversion #191: A Very Fashionable Dog
Dunc keeping warm on a cold, cold night.
Dunc, being adorable.
Images of Renowned Authors as Children, Part One
Everyone was a child once, even serious wordsmiths. Let’s get started:
A pouty Eugene O’Neill:
Eugene O’Neill, 1892-1894.
Daily Diversion #190: A Winter Sunset’s Dying Light
A Winter Sunset’s Dying Light
Daily Diversion #189: Books for the New Year
Different editions of old favourites and new-to-me volumes…
Books for the New Year
Happy Reading in 2014!
Daily Diversion #188: Morning Tea with Sylvia and The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar was published on 14 January 1963, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas.
The Bell Jar
“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.”-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Daily Diversion #187: All the Cool Kids
All the cool kids were doing it yesterday…
All the cool kids were doing it yesterday…
Boiling water thrown into frigid air=this!
It was so much fun, we ultimately did it three times!
This is what happens when two bored adults are housebound during a vicious cold spell.
“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.”-Sinclair Lewis
Writers Writing: Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell
The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Henrik Ibsen
- Name: Henrik Ibsen
- DOB: 3/20/1828
- Member Since: 1864
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Head of entertainment committee.
- Hobbies: Exposing hypocrisy; modernizing theatre; shocking bourgeois sensibilities; landscaping the wild expanse of his beard.
Henrik Ibsen, circa 1864
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