this morning's favorite snippet

The Straight Dope: What was the deal with Jimmy Carter and the killer rabbit?: Lesson for life #1: if it moves, kill it. Lesson for life #2: if you can’t kill it, for God’s sake don’t talk about it to the Associated Press.

Saturday

I thought the blogosphere could do without me for a day or so… So we had lunch with our friend Albert and went to a show of Elizabeth Nourse‘s works. She was from Cincinnati, born just before the Civil War started. Impressionist, close friend of Mary Cassatt. She died in the early 1930’s, I think… Continue reading Saturday

trains again

I have lived all my life within the sound of these trains… Sometimes, every few years, I have to write about them to make the sound of them quit haunting me. But it isn’t nearly time again for that yet.