Suspect that long-term health benefits of distance running may be offset by necessity of dousing myself with Deet to run in mayfly season. # Apparently Virginia has rotated unnaturally close to [...]
Family day. Must involve Settlers & cookies. # That would be Settlers, cookies, and moving heavy furniture. Like you do. # Didn't have to get up early this morning. So naturally was wide [...]
Some time ago an alert reader sent me a copy of this book cover, which he’d noticed on Amazon: The book was self-published through Amazon and apparently no copies are available, so I have [...]
Because there’s MORE TO DO outside. I’m writing and speaking as usual, but as summer gets underway, things that have to be done on the farm multiply. Most recently, peaches had to be [...]
Do something for your brain this week: come hear us speak in Richmond. Free, no registration, spread the word! http://tinyurl.com/2dt78bu # Writing about Genoa this morning. # Gearing up for [...]
DS18 has arrived in Sydney from Guangzhou. Feel enormously relieved. # First week of June! Taking the week off from writing, giving the kids off from school. # Will be talking (briefly) about the [...]
So one of the fine members of The Well-Trained Mind message boards actually CONSULTED the “Works Cited” in the History of the Ancient World. One of my previous books (The [...]