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The Dead Writers Round-Up: 14th-18th November
- Astrid Lindgren was born on 11/14/1907. “I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.” (The Pippi Longstocking books)
- Booker T. Washington died on 11/14/1915. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” (Up from Slavery; Working With the Hands)
- Marianne Moore was born on 11/15/1887. “If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.” (Poems; Selected Poems; The Marianne Moore Reader) Continue reading
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“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”-Victor Hugo
Daily Diversion #70: A Life of Lumpy Leisure
When I’m not writing or reading, I’m taking snaps of the boys. Crosley and Duncan are truly my wet-nosed, slobbering, warm-eared Daily Diversions. Cros shows up on the blog more frequently because he spends most of his day sleeping on various lumpy things, his head on a pillow. It hasn’t been tested but I’m confident that Duncan has enough energy to power, at the very least, a four slice toaster. He doesn’t sit still for more than a few seconds. Today’s diversion features you-know-who, doing you-know-what. Imagine that.
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”-Groucho Marx
The Dead Writers Round-Up: 10th-13th November
- Oliver Goldsmith was born on 11/10/1730. “Where wealth accumulates, men decay.” (The Vicar of Wakefield; The Deserted Village; She Stoops to Conquer)
- Friedrich Schiller was born on 11/10/1759. “Will it, and set to work briskly.” (Ode to Joy; The Robbers; The Maid of Orleans) Continue reading
Daily Diversion #67: Most of the Photographs from My North Carolina Excursion Revolve Around Wine
“It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”-Charles Baudelaire Continue reading
Daily Diversion #66: Give Me More Wine
“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”-Rumi
Wine, wine, wine
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“I shut my eyes in order to see.”-Paul Gauguin
Heading South
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”-Ernest Hemingway
The Chef and I will be in North Carolina for several days. My posting will probably be curtailed whilst we spend time with family. Never fear, my lovelies: things will return to normal on Tuesday.
Halloween is My Favourite Holiday
Halloween is not my favourite holiday because of its free pass to dress up in a ridiculous or obscure costume, drink wildly, and eat too much cheap drugstore candy (I’m looking at you, candy corn). No, Halloween is my favourite holiday because it marks the birthday of the smartest, funniest, sweetest, sexiest man I know. My husband. Lest he think that an alien has taken up residence in my brain, I will leave it at this: he is awesome, he is mine, and I love him. Oh, dear readers, how I love him!
Engagement Pic by David Ames, November 2010. “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”-Plato
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