[Mrs. Ferrars'] complexion was sallow; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression; but a lucky contracti...

I am still catching up on processing and sharing thoughts and impressions from our visit to the United States last summer. One episode I was...

I don't know where September went. All my good intentions for getting back into strong writing habits led me nowhere, and next week is a...

Mother Ann Lee We did not get to do much sightseeing while visiting the US this summer. After three years away, we were almost entirely focu...

Note: this is a repost from my "purged" materials, originally appearing on another blog in early October 2015, shortly before that...

Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds in  Persuasion, 1995 "If you had been a week later at Lisbon, last spring, Frederick, you would have been...

Hannah More, NPG, London I was in Florence last week. Firenze ... you've changed, but you're still the same. I couldn't visit in...