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Archive for May, 2006

Well, no, not really, of course not. It’s just — two consecutive posts, on two consecutive days?! The sky falling in is more likely than that!
But I wanted to respond to the several positive comments I got about my cross stitch. It is a complicated pattern, but made much simpler by two [...]

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I suspect that only a classical-music lover will get the full import of that title, so I will explain that it’s from Bach’s beautiful cantata for the First Sunday of Advent, “Sleepers Awake.” “Wake, O wake, for night is flying, the watchmen on the heights are crying, Awake, awake, Jerusalem.”
Now that I have that out [...]

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My daughter, who is a writer (her fiction is as yet unpublished, although she’s a contributing editor for a number of special-interest publications), recently penned a bizarre short-short that was published on the internet — since I don’t know if internet publishing counts, for the time being I’ll say she’s unpublished, though after having read [...]

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