Days that feel like older days. Lazy suburban summer drives, windows open, listening to a short story read on the radio. Sitting by the lake for an interminable length of time. Browsing at the bookstore I used to spend so much time in, tripping over the carpet. While my mother looks at…
My husband bought the Hark, a Vagrant! book recently and insisted I read it too. I'm so glad he did. Not only is it great to read funny things from someone who is also mystified by the "sex sells history" trend (and shares my love of early political cartoons), it's fun…
"Well now, history is not just the tale of the victors," he said, "It's the tale of the privileged. The men in the mud of the battlefield didn't leave much of a story behind, and the stories they did tell were mostly ignored or forgotten." - A Desperate Fortune, Susanna Kearsley.…
