
The admiral's honorary duchess (see Good August Memories).
I've not been blogging here lately -- too busy, too disheartened because Trump and his allies seem to be deflecting (as yet) the serious…
"The quietness of it does me good" -- Jane Austen, May 2, 1813, to Cassandra Working woman reading a newspaper Friends, It's been…
Gwen John drawing The poem below is the coda to Elsa Morante's Menzogna e sortilegio -- badly translated in English as House of…