Blackberry winter

I think we here in Cincinnati are having a blackberry winter. Warm air has arrived, the daffodils are even mostly over, and most importantly for my breakfasting, blackberries have bloomed a bit wherever it is that they are (not here in my yard, unfortunately). Now we have our cold snap. The boiler is back on, Continue reading Blackberry winter

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Via » Commonplace boren.nu In the 1930s also, persons of good intentions accused this flamethrower [lit. cannon-igniter] Winston Churchill of being the principal danger towards world peace. In a sense, these people were correct. Churchill, in opposing Nazism, menaced world peace, a peace of which the terms had been defined by Hitler. The rejection of Continue reading qotd

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Substitute damn every time you’re inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. — Mark Twain Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then Continue reading qotd(s)