Some lovely things in heavy rotation right now…
Victoria’s  Secret wrap sweater

Fools Paradise, by Anita Konnka, the main character is “Obsessed with omens, astrology, dreams, fortune-tellers, and other objects of the paranormal, …both funny and morose”

Naoko, by Keigo Higashino, “After a terrible accident, Naoko switches bodies with her daughter who dies after the tragic event “  [...]

I have never shoveled so much snow in my entire life as I did this past Wednesday.  The storm had started the night before and seemed to have stopped by the next morning…I stayed home anyway, because the roads just looked terrible and I could log on from home and get some work done, and [...]

Christmas was rainy and quiet this year. The Man presented me with a home-made card emblazoned with the phrase HAVE A SMELLY CHRISTMAS, and which included a gift certificate for The Perfumed Court. I wish I could say that I decided to hang onto it for a rainy day. But …it’s already [...]

Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.
This [...]

I suppose it is that time of year again…all my plants are shriveling and blackening…and I have no wish to brave the cold to attempt reviving them, or bring them inside where it is warm. The long evening shadows darken the roads before 5 o’clock. Stepping out of bed in the morning is [...]