A garland of lit-up hearts in the kitchen window. At the Botanical Garden All the paths were covered with snow and ice, so we couldn’t tak...

 Pre-Valentine Dinner Thursday Valentine-themed treats: the cherries were packaged in a heart=shaped box. A Valentine Critter Shamelessly st...

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans is a very sad book about Sybil, a very old and depressing woman (younger than I am, so I don’t cut her ...

  Parnassus on Wheels is a short novel about a delightful runaway named Miss Helen McGill. Helen, the narrator, describes how she’s been a ...

This book is written in a very special format called spiralism . As you follow the spiral in a sort of imagined space, you see some of the s...

 I just read a great article ( link ) putting the processed foods in perspective. It appeared in today’s New York Times, written by  Jan Dut...

  Rereading an old bestseller — Foucault’s Pendulum . Unberto Eco’s magnum opus is not as compelling now as it was when it was new. I may no...

We watched Dr. No — the very first time that Sean Connery played James Bond: 1962. Better than we remembered it. The script was pretty faith...

Sunday evening was a potluck at MakerWorks, where Len has been going to work on his woodworking projects and also to take some classes in ho...