This morning, making plans to rescue a couple of almost-historic farm buildings before they crumble into the woods: roof, paint, shore up. # Stuck on the very last paragraph of a book review. The [...]
Writing history is like sportscasting: you need lots of synonyms for "beat." Maul, crush, subdue, quell, vanquish, smear, smash, clobber… # Powered by Twitter Tools
Gentle Readers, if there is ever going to be a finished History of the Renaissance World, I need to concentrate on history and nothing else…at least long enough to get a feel for the sweep [...]
Nice Tuesday surprise: the dreadful twaddle I wrote on Saturday morning doesn't sound nearly as bad as it did on Saturday night. # Day Twelve w/out power at Peace Hill Press office: Dominion [...]
After10+" inches rain, swimming pool water even w/ground & TEEMING w/very loud frogs. Like National Geographic special meets Exodus plagues. # Midnight. After 10 inches plus in a single [...]
Feels like fall: dry and bright and clear. Looks like fall: long shadows and bluejay sky. # Mumford & Sons is currently making the political history of the Renaissance much more interesting. [...]
Outer Banks: beach with kids all morning, now eating cookies & watching National Treasure. Sun+snacks+sea+Sean Bean as villain. Oh, yeah. # Forced to pull culinary MacGyver, thanks to [...]
I realize that I’m more often using my public Facebook page to make brief notes about reading and random thoughts…and as most of my energy has ben going into the History of the [...]
Celebrated my birthday with movie double-header: Cowboys & Aliens followed by Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Mayhem and calamity!! # This morning, I have wandered all the way from western [...]
