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.…
Maybe. Can one quit being a writer? This is a post I've wanted to write - and dreaded writing - for a long time. For about as long as I have no longer considered myself a "writer," at least outside of my freelancing career. How long has that been? It's…
