austenreveries.wordpress.com/2024/09/30/o... I have now revised it thoroughly -- to explain why for the first time I feel retired, what my state is now, experiences of unkind discrimination in reaction to this state; new and old loves to study and enjoy.

the Washington Post reports today that this carpet-bombing resembles Britain bombing Dresden. misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/212164.html

Lebanon

The purpose of this blog is to single out two interviews at DemocracyNow.org which are particulaly articulate about the central actions happening in Lebanon in the last week: who is enabling another m...

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Bed Among the Lentils

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Our next door neighbors sign

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A Calendar for Sense and Sensibility

Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood writing a letter to Mrs Dashwood, London to Devonshire (1995, S&S, Lee/Thompson) Dear friends and readers, I am truly delighted that my blog-essay called A Calendar fo...

I've thoroughly rewritten it, partly changed my mind It is still short: maybe I should have called it "Vanya as Hamlet ..."

They are. My younger daughter is a librarian. With all my books I am a librarian. I take care of them

I've rewritten this one so that it is now Margery Allingham and the Evolution of the Protean Mystery genre. These blogs are far more of a struggle than they were pre-stroke.

Yes I have to keep remembering all I do have. I grieve for loss of Ian. I will replace since w/o ability to driv very hard to get anywhere in N.Va

Death a familiar this year. First he came for Clarycat, then he came for me, I was rescued, now returned for Ian. I wish He'd forget we exist. Annus horribilis.