Two Writers, 50 States, Endless Stories
Posted in California, Do, Go, New York, Rhode Island on Sep 9th, 2009
Ruins thrill me. Especially when they’re just…there. When they’re free of guided tours, other people, and too much information. I like to wander decaying exteriors and see how nature has started to claim them for its own. To see trees and plants growing where people once danced or ate dinner. I like to see sunlight [...]
The Texas Star Ferris Wheel looms on the Dallas horizon, visible from Interstate 30. It’s motionless most of the year, except for three glorious weeks in autumn, when it is lighted and turning because the great State Fair of Texas is in swing.
In nearly three decades in Texas, I have missed the Fair just once, [...]
Posted in Buy, Discuss, Go, Maine, Read, See, Texas, Three-fer Friday, Washington on Sep 4th, 2009
Though adding books to carry-on luggage can make that final schlep home somewhat exhausting, compulsive book buyers–like, say, the three of us–just can’t be stopped. (Luckily, the shoulders we hang our bags from don’t get a vote.) Here, some beloved bookshops from coast to coast…
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After you’ve been bewitched by the West Texas landscape (and you [...]
“How are you m’lady?”
It would have been nice to smile back at the man asking me the question. After all, he had a really big staff. Alas, he also had a jester hat on his head, bells a-tinkling. And I was at the New York Renaissance Faire. As an adult. On my birthday. In my [...]
As you can see, this book has been around a while. (The back cover is held on with masking tape.)
I first read Florence King’s Southern Ladies and Gentlemen long before my move from New York City to Dallas in 1982, and have reread it many times since. After my move, it served as an instruction [...]
