Suprise Me

He loved to say "You can trust me, I'm a doctor!" And people did. Read More

How we started our most cherished Christmas tradition! Read More

Mademoiselle Moulin. Miss Windmill.   That’s what her name meant Though I’m not sure she  Taught us that or  Necessarily wanted us to know Petite But square with cropped red hair A kind of Buster Brown In peasant pants and big buttoned top Dallas not Paris was her home Wherever  She was born and grew… Read More

Sometimes we don't realize the influence a parent has had in our life until later in that life. Read More

We continue to get lots of catalogs these days, enticing us to buy everything from fancy cruises to kitchenware to clothing. The deforestation caused by these is disheartening. Being so small, it is difficult for me to shop from a catalog, but I do have tried-and-true brands that suit me well. Through the years, I’ve… Read More

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Frances Henne I’ve been inspired by many fine teachers over the years but the one who influenced me most was Frances Henne, my professor at Columbia’s graduate library school. Not a household name and surely not recognizable outside her field,   Dr Henne was a mover and a shaker in the children’s and young adult… Read More

The house was a study in deferred maintenance.  Charming, with furniture, bedding, kitchen ware, and barn implements still in place, but old. He was a budding architect.  I was a friend of a friend with no repair skills to speak of, but had youthful enthusiasm, and came cheap. Read More

Oh, there’s also a swan (a brave tenor) who sings of roasting in agony on a spit. Read More

When Dan does something, he gives it 100% and that was the way he again took up bicycling in 2018. He had his first bike accident the day he got his fancy new bike. The tubeless tires fell apart, so that accident wasn’t on him, though he was still taken to the ER and I,… Read More