I’m Featured on Toemail!

Posted on October 1, 2013 by maedez

My Daily Diversion post from Saturday (Tree House) is featured on Toemail! If you’ve never checked out this delightful blog, what are you waiting for?

Daily Diversion #160: Pretty City, Black and White

Posted on September 21, 2013 by maedez

Pretty city, sad day. My step-dad’s funeral is this afternoon. I thought I would leave you a lovely photo to look at whilst I am off-line.

Partial view of the Columbus skyline. September 2013.

Can you guess which building is my favourite?

Daily Diversion #159: Living Art

Posted on September 19, 2013 by maedez

This is a fantastic place to read a good book.

Topiary Park. Columbus.

Daily Diversion #158: Wonder Woman

Posted on September 15, 2013 by maedez

Although I’m feeling anything but invincible these days, I still think this Wonder Woman mural decorating a wall in the women’s restroom at the High Beck Tavern in Columbus is pretty amazing!

Wonder Woman Mural

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”-Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“You have power over your mind-not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”-Marcus Aurelius

On the Road Again

Posted on September 11, 2013 by maedez

I’m on the road today, heading home for a 10-day stretch. I wish I looked this fresh and kicky whilst traveling.

Whiz Bang, May 1922.

I will meet you back here later tonight or tomorrow, with some new content. Until then, thanks for ever-so-sweetly hanging in there!

A Reading List a Mile Long: Daedalus Books Early Fall 2013

Posted on August 14, 2013 by maedez

“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”-C.S. Lewis

The Medieval World at War Matthew Bennett, ed.
The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the West by Christopher Corbett
Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason by Christina Shelton
“Something Urgent I Have to Say to You”: The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams by Herbert Leibowitz
The Cheaper The Crook, The Gaudier the Patter: Forgotten Hipster Lines, Tough Guy Talk, and Jive Gems by Alan Axelrod Continue reading →

[Book Nerd Links] 50 Places Every Literary Fan Should Visit

Posted on July 17, 2013 by maedez

50 Places Every Literary Fan Should Visit [courtesy Flavorwire]

I have 3 questions for you, dear readers.

How many places on this list have you visited?
Where would you most like to visit?
Is there a literary site (or sites) you think should have made the list?

Daily Diversion #103: Vintage Water Nymphs

Posted on March 1, 2013 by maedez

I went to the 20th Century Cincinnati show last weekend and all I got was… this pretty amazing postcard.

Water Nymphs at a Tropical Beach in Florida

It’s old and the strange hatched postcard finish photographs a bit fuzzy, but isn’t their good time infectious? I want every single bright two-piece swimsuit they are wearing. Come on May!

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow fast in movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again this summer.”-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby