Monthly Archives: April 2012

Internet Radio Daze

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

I’ll be on an internet radio program, Tuesday morning at 7 Eastern time, talking about books! More here! Update: Did the interview, in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, and it’s archived here.

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Another Post at History Undressed

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

I have a guest post up at History Undressed … Civil War in the Hill Country, a shorter version of the talk that I gave to the Civil War Roundtable last week. (Which went over pretty well, I think – … Continue reading →

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All Things Doggish

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

It has happened to us again; we came home from morning walkies on Thursday with an extra dog, to the bafflement and apparent disgust of the Lesser Weevil and Connor … who seem to be getting over it, even as … Continue reading →

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Story-Telling and History

Posted on April 17, 2012 by

I am almost sure that telling a historical story through a movie is fraught with as many perils for the story-teller as doing so through the medium of historical fiction – it’s just that the movie-maker’s pratfalls are so much … Continue reading →

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The Little House Books, and What They Meant to Me

Posted on April 15, 2012 by

Some time ago, as I was putting together the short story, Atalanta and the Erlking I was reminded yet again again of my own grade-school devotion to Laura Ingalls Wilders’ Little House books. My heroine is a thirteen-year-old girl, in … Continue reading →

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Not Prepping … Just Prepared

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

It would seem that once there is a TV reality show about something than you can assume that it’s gone mainstream enough that the denizens of the mainstream media world are interested. So it seems to have happened with ‘prepping’ … Continue reading →

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Granny Clarke

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

Granny Clarke was the mother of my mothers’ dearest friend from the time that JP, my next-youngest brother and I were small children,  before my sister Pippy was born, and my parents were living in a tiny rented cottage in the hills … Continue reading →

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One Pan Wurst Supper

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

One of my oldest best-used cookbooks is Barbara Swain’s Cookery for 1 or 2, which I bought about the time I moved from the military barracks into my own teensy apartment. I may have bought it before I moved out, since … Continue reading →

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April in the Garden

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

It’s looking especially good, this spring..

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Further Experiments in D-I-Y Food

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

I went through a phase like this once before, when we were stationed in Utah for a couple of years. The house that we lived in had a garden patch out in the back – which was customary for older … Continue reading →

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