Mushrooms from the Farmers’ Market The cooked mushrooms were delicious! At the Farmers’ Market Saturday I love looking at all the different ...

  Alice made scones and poppy-seed cake. Pastry at Kerrytown yesterday morning.  (OK, the baked goods are not fabulous any more at Sweetwate...

  Photos © 2026 mae sander

Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) Ngaio Marsh is known, according to Wikipedia, "as one of the 'Queens of Crime,' along with Agatha Chris...

  Pizza Dinner  Corn Chowder Bacon and eggs for breakfast  Cereal with peaches IN SEASON Another Swan Photos © 2026 mae sander

  We went to the afternoon showing of this recently released movie. It was just ok, IMHO. Lots of battle scenes. Molly Ivins might have said...

  A classic mystery from 1929: The Duke of York’s Steps by author Henry Wade, real name: Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet,( 1887–1969...

  Webster Church is around 20 miles from Ann Arbor on a rural road called Webster Church Road. The church dates to a few years after Ann Arb...

First it was a sentient dog in The Art of Racing in the Rain . We won’t mention Jimminy Cricket — a most memorable sentient insect from the ...

  The Frog Pond Haiku by Matsuo Bashō Old pond — frogs jumped in — sound of water. — Translated by Lafcadio Hearn I’m wearing my Bashō-frog ...

On the table: charcoal-grilled lamb chops and rice/mushroom salad. Dessert: vanilla pudding with fresh peaches.  Memory: wind surfers The se...

  The Intrigue : Published July 4, 2026 Magical realism is one of my favorite genres in fiction — and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s earlier books a...

I hope to see it soon. Thinking of the famous poem: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?...

 Crazy Netflick We watched the recently-released film “The Sheep Detectives” which is actually about talking sheep, but not surreal like Mur...