August 2006

It’s time for an update on the author events calendar. Dates booked for Beyond Beowulf now extend almost 12 months […]

Let’s talk about Beowulf again. Recent blogs have wandered rather far afield. Beowulf, as everyone knows, was written in Old

Once past the middle of August, life in the country takes on a different tempo. One of the earliest signs

When people first come to visit us, they always comment on our isolation. We are one mile from the nearest

Protagoras (490–420 B.C.E.) said that “man is the measure of all things,” but Protagoras had never seen a modern hospital.

So, what does a blogger do when admitted to the hospital? Takes notes and meditates on blogs to write. Sounds

Last week I finished reading The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman. It’s a study of three historical episodes that

Being in San Francisco for a week, we went to an exhibit of quilts, “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend.” The