The port of Haimaey, Iceland, as we saw it in August, 2021. One of the two mountains dates to 1973. The town exists today because of an incr...

"Have some Madeira M'Dear"   Michael Flanders (1922–1975) and Donald Swann (1923–1994) wrote and performed a collection of v...

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New from the wonderful Penzey’s spice company, thanks to my brother and sister-in-law who gave me a gift certificate! Berbere spice blend an...

Grocery shopping this week was much better than last week, although I have seen articles in almost every news source about empty shelves in ...

  Adrian Miller, Black Smoke , published 2021. Black Smoke is ...

It's winter now. Where I live it's cold, with a little bit of snow on lawns and roofs. Much of the country is in considerably worse ...

The Fish Girl, published 2017. (This review contains spoilers) The epigraph at the beginning of The Fish Girl , a novella by Mirandi Riwoe,...

Sujata Massey's series about Japan keeps tempting me to read one more. The latest is  The Samurai's Daughter.  Like her other novels...

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman. Published 2021, The Thursday Murder Club is an informal organization of several friends who live in...

The new surge in the pandemic combined with winter cold weather has us staying inside. Our coping strategy is to try some new or newish reci...

The Cat Who Saved Books  by Sosuke Natsukawa. Published 2021. The Cat Who Saved Books is a fantasy about a boy in a bookstore. In reading t...