Nancy Vieira Couto

I love that poem!

I loved Margaret O'Brien in Little Women. She was my favorite actress when I was a child.

YouTube video by N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources Unexpected Verdict: The Trial of John Peter Zenger

For some reason, I've been thinking about John Peter Zenger recently.

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Happy International Cat Day to everyone who ever had a cat or was grey in the dark.

YouTube video by Release - Topic Deportee (Woody's Home Tape)

A song for our time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpp5...

Love this!

Fernando Pessoa’s table at Café Martinho in Lisbon. Hat, cup, and saucer, still waiting for his return.

I did my part. I just bought three books from independent booksellers.

Enjoying Lisbon’s beautiful calçadas. The sidewalks and squares appear to undulate.

Geez. If this were a harmless literary trick instead of existing in real life, it would be almost Borgesian.

Thank you for this. I wasn’t familiar with it.

Returning to this beauty:

YouTube video by Grateful Dead Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones (Official Music Video)

Listening to the Grateful Dead on my morning walk, I realized that "Throwing Stones" (from In the Dark, 1987) is still eerily relevant. Ashes, ashes, all fall down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRNv...

I’m on Team McIntosh, but only if there’s a salt shaker handy to cut the tartness.

I hope it helped.

Where can I buy one of these?

Forever is a long time, but, yeah, I guess they deserved it.

The Victorians believed that pigs bring good luck. Maybe they were on to something. The ball has dropped. Let’s dance!

Happy solstice!

Happy solstice!

You’re welcome.

Use a finger roll for lobster. It’s like a hot dog roll, but cut on the side. A real hot dog roll is cut on top, and the rolls need to be pulled apart. Too many people put hot dogs in finger rolls. A lobster submarine would be way too expensive, but lobster in a finger roll would be manageable.

Or you don’t have a ladder.

Congratulations! I think you’re on a roll.

I shall heed your advice.

Love it! Now I want an owl for Christmas.

We have a tree!

And now you’re going to eat them? Some of us have a problem with Animal Crackers, and we don’t even know the animals.

I’m already getting ready for the next year if the horse, MY year.

Alice Brock, Restaurant Owner Made Famous by a Song, Dies at 83 Arlo Guthrie’s antiwar staple “Alice’s Restaurant” was inspired by a Thanksgiving Day visit to her diner in western Massachusetts.

Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts diner was immortalized in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 song “Alice’s Restaurant,” died on Thursday — just a week before Thanksgiving, the holiday during which the story at the center of the song takes place. She was 83.