Recently, a facebook post led me to an interesting article from 2015: The 100 Greatest British Novels. I love lists like this. I’ve found some of my best reads from lists, Harold Bloom’s Western Canon in particular. Lists and friends, actually. Return of the Native, Daniel Derronda, Silas Marner, many that I should’ve-but refused-to read …
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StarFishGourd
Kim gave me the pumpkin that I used in the last Halloween post. She also gave me a rather unique looking gourd that she thought might be fun to put a face on. It was. I looked at it and, possibly because I’m reading a book on fish intelligence, I immediately saw this sea creature. …
Pumpkin 2025, Happy Halloween
Birthday 2025
She was inspired by an eagle and had a tattoo of the bird put on her thigh. Knowing my daughter, I thought that eagle should have a tattoo of my daughter on its thigh. I actually drew the whole bird, it just wouldn’t fit legibly on the card.
BASD “B” (Part 2)
Read part 1 here. Across the bottom of the Superintendent’s page on the BASD website, it says The Bellefonte Area School District community continually strives to “Inspire and Prepare Today’s Learners to Embrace Tomorrow’s Challenges.” Welcome!BE Informed • BE Involved • BE Connected • BElong in BEllefonte On the Middle School site, it says, “At …
Plate 12
I’m not sure about some of this. Seeing it here helps me step back, assess and adjust. The library wasn’t quite open when I got there, so I ate the breakfast the café had packed. When I looked up. Warren was walking towards me. I felt a wave of relief; he was laughing and talking …
Saturn hit
On Friday, December 15, 2023, my granddaughter and I returned to my parked Saturn on Spring Street. As we checked the meter, three women came out of the Monarch beauty salon and yelled that someone had just hit my car and went down Cherry alley. “It was a dark orange-ish red pick-up.” They showed me …
halloween
A few years back I made one of these for the library. I posted with more detail then. They don’t always have cat’s eyes; sometimes they’re funny and blue. It depends on the pumpkin- what it needs. If it wants to laugh, I let it.
Rough, plate 10
I picked up a ball and gave it a gentle, underhand toss right into the zone. She held the bat out, letting the ball hit it and bounce back to me. “That isn’t the way you teach pitching, is it, coach?” She took her stance again, looked me right in the eye. I didn’t want …
Mouse color plate 9
“Careful, coach,” Hailey warned me, then came past me to grab a bundle of wooden slats. She unrolled it between the combs so it would provide a solid footing for me. “And this is the brace,” she said as she picked up a metal pole that I hadn’t seen. “Help me push this comb a …