“My parents are both married and ½ of them are very good looking.” This is the story of two very different writers, one an American comic writer of genius, playwright and sportswriter, the other a young English girl with terrible spelling. The American was Ring Lardner. Lardner began ...
Anyway details of Mr Jones the farming schoolmaster remain as yet undiscovered but he is my ggggg grandfather and at least I have something to go at. We are back to the 1720s ish here and records in Wales become scarce. Fortunately as a deeply religious crowd I have a fighting chance. T...
Years later, after Ma (my Granny) had died, I remember finding Grandad – who was a charming conversationalist and never without a flirtatious twinkle in his one real eye – holding court in the tiny living room of the cottage to a glamorous laughing Freda, (Mrs Phiip Mist) Alfred’s ...
THG is doing the first driving stint so I’ll be able to read my book n stuff. That’s one of the benefits of only having her car to drive. She wouldn’t drive my old Defender as it was too bit. I didn’t mind really but it did mean we wouldn’t be sharing the driving and ...
1820– Joseph Bonaparte, the eldest brother of Emperor Napoleon is reputed to have seen the Jersey Devil while hunting on his Bordentown, New Jersey estate. According to folklore, Joseph was out hunting alone when he came upon some strange tracks on the ground like those of a two-footed donk...
This Nudimmud was of his fathers the master; Of broad wisdom, understanding, mighty in strength, Mightier by far than his grandfather, Anshar. He had no rival among the gods, his brothers. (20) Thus were established and were… the great gods. They disturbed Tiamat as they surged back an...
(and had to be the one deciding when to cancel or when to persevere) I enjoyed the descriptions of the snow and the buried carousel beneath. The language is extraordinary for its poetic brilliance: “The sky was so intense, it became a dream scorched into his now.” Or, “His snowsuit...
“We lost a legend,” said Scott Bradley, a member of the Foundation’s board of directors and a longtime McVie friend and associate. “I was fortunate to have been able to work with him for most of my career.” Bradley is in his 32nd season as part of the Boston Bruins organization...
He was little, weak and helpless, Tears and smiles like us He knew; And He feeleth for our sadness, And He shareth in our gladness. — Cecil Frances Alexander, “Once in Royal David’s City” My sisters and I each had an unusual childhood connection with the Nativity story. Our fathe...
I lay for three months in a hospital bed, an inert network of pains, discomfort, smells. Inside was nobody. There was only a nexus of existence, buried very deep and only gradually working to the surface. Out of habit the body went on breathing, eating, excreting, being awake and conne...