Digression: In memory of an artist.

My mom passed away last year right after Mother’s Day, at a hospice house.  The pain had escalated so much I could not keep up with the meds at home, after three sleepless nights, I finally got a nurse that facilitated our transition there.  And it all sounds so clinical now. When we got there

Digression: My love for Nancy Drew getting me in trouble and Reading Goals for 2024.

When I was a tween, some where between 10 and 12, I read all the Nancy Drew books in the children’s section of our town’s public library. This was in the early 1980’s, and our library’s set was a bit older. I’m thinking they were the original 1940’s set/or reprints of it, and definitely not the updates

Digressions: Jane Austen’s Felicity of Endings and Pink Flamingo Christmas trees. 10 December 2023.

Few different digression ramblings here. Last Sunday, I attended a JASNA/Jane Austen Society North America lecture via Zoom. “In Pursuit of Perfect Felicity, or, just how happy are Austen’s endings anyway?” It was an interesting, academic lecture by professor, Inger Sigru Bredkjaer Brodey of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and related to her

Saying farewell to Viola and an iconic friend.

Last week I along with many others said farewell to Viola, she is the mother of my cousin Corinne, a cousin by marriage, but to clarify, Corinne and my cousin Ronny married, when they were both 18 years old and I was a baby so I grew up with Corinne as my cousin. Viola has

Digression: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

The world is scary enough, but it’s also spooky movie season, although Hallmark Channel and its rival Great American Channel, just pretty much jump over it from “fall harvest” where everyone is drinking hot apple cider and picking out pumpkins — right into Christmas movies.  Why they do this I don’t know? And it’s like