Archive for November, 2016
book: Fallen into the Pit (Inspector Felse)
One of the books I’m recently read is Fallen Into the Pit, by Ellis Peters. She’s best known for Brother Cadfael, but this one is an Inspector Felse mystery (contemporary, published 1951). Lately I’ve been reading a lot of BritLit from WWI to just after WWII (DE Stevenson, Angela Thirkell, Elizabeth Cadell), and in the […]
defending my people
I promised myself to quit engaging on FB and on political topics in general because of the high blood pressure – but maybe writing it out is better than thinking it over and letting it fester. I’m beginning to get that feeling that supposedly elected Trump – that feeling that my kind of people are […]
too bad Chanukah is very late this year
Because I’m feeling the need for those small lights in the darkness that send a message two thousand years old: “You did your worst, but we’re still here.” Diwali has come and gone – any light it left behind has dimmed, lost in the shadow of later events – darkness, division, disenchantment and encroaching despair. […]
more personal stuff
I promise not to talk about the Electoral college in this one, or even about the election itself except obliquely. I’m going to have to go back to my doctor, I think (my GP). Lately my blood pressure has seemed to be up, when it was taken at the dentist, my work physical, and today […]
Electoral College – why?nope, nope, nope and not that reason either.
I’ve had so much to say since this election, but this hasn’t felt like the right place to say it, for two reasons: one is that as far as I can tell this site is mostly read by people of like mind who are already thinking the same things, and the other is that everything […]
hold your ears a minute, please
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Election nerves.)
YOP!!!
I’ve been following Pantsuit Nation today on Facebook. I only heard of it yesterday, apparently it was only founded a couple of weeks ago, and now it feels like all my female friends are in there. If anyone remembers Horton Hears a Who, it sort of feels like we’ve been shouting “We are here, we […]
a wider view
Maybe from here on to the election I should just stick to posting quotes that touch me – I’ve been coming across a bunch lately, though not all of them work out of context. Tonight seems to be the night for thoughts on good and evil – I happened on these two in rapid suggestion […]
venting, explosively
I have been trying hard to stay civil, throughout this whole election. It really does feel to me like this is something way out of the extraordinary and yet some knowledge of history tells me it may not be. The election of 1800 had even uglier rhetoric (even Trump hasn’t called anyone a “hideous hermaphroditic […]