He was English, which was apparently controversial among my Welsh immigrant family.

Sawmill ggpa I don’t think had any real medical training. They just lived in the middle of nowhere and that was his assigned role. His name was Horace and he played the accordion.

I didn’t really know any of them. I met air force grandpa once, at my grandma’s funeral at age 3. Mainly I remember that his backyard was full of slugs, which I found very exciting. It was my first time in the Pacific Northwest.

One was in the air force (I was told as a child, a parachute tester ?? Surely fake, right?) and the other, I have no idea. I’m sure nothing good. Great-gpa on that side, who raised my mom, was a medic at a saw mill & a farmer.

Philly has many nice oyster bars, but I can’t make it to happy hour in center city from where I work 😭

If I could pick two things, it would be that and a hardware store. Tarrytown really had it all!!!!!!! I miss it every day.

If I could pick one thing to add to downtown Narberth, it would be a small wine bar with an oyster happy hour.

i love a book that's seen the world and knows its way around. seasoned, reliable, softly strong, warm and comforting, but still lively, a bit wild and definitely cunty. in short: books should be milfs

We're smokin' that Argentinian himejoshi catgirl shit out of a puma bone pipe at an altitude of 12,600 feet, concurrent with the third Dynasty of Ur, you stupid shit.

#TheWriteWomen: The challenge: In March, post book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can).
Rules:
It has to be a book you’ve read.
It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from.

This is my favorite new novel of this decade, no competition.

I should instead spend the money on bare roots from David Austin and just plant them in my rented backyard. I’ll be here for a while, but someday someone else will come love them.

I realizing I could just buy 300 roses at any time is a terrible discovery

I’m reading D’Annunzio’s Il piacere right now and it is influencing me to price out bulk wedding roses… I’m not getting married. I just want my house to be full of roses at all times.

Rebarbative is soooo good

Reading the replies reminds me of when I used to hang out with a lot of people who casually used ”edifying” all the time, although I have mostly cured myself of that one

Simulacrum
Execrable
Prurient

It has been such a pleasure to approach the topic of mid-century bookwomen through collecting—I am learning new things all the time with every acquisition (and in my collection, I have most of the resources I need to write about these women!).

Front cover of a catalog from L&T Respess Books, “Books about Books & Bibliography from the Library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan.”

Inside front cover of the catalog, with a biographical note on Phyllis dates March 1998.

My colleagues arrived home from CA today bearing a very kind gift for me from another bookseller: a sale catalog of bibliography from the collection of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan.

'Ideally, time in bibliography is no object, and if a certain task of large dimensions needs doing, it is worth a lifetime.'

I'm going to start citing Bowers whenever I'm asked to produce a timeline for a grant application.

Museums aren’t neutral.

Article here the-past.com/feature/expa... (footnote ref to @trowelblazers.bsky.social)

A rediscovered Rembrandt.

You know those short books they put out for Latin and Greek authors with titles like 'How to win an election/live well/etc?

I want to propose a new one, 'Dealing with amoral and deeply stupid rich people and their relatives' from the letters of Cicero.

If you’re using LLMs for this kind of research, you are simply an idiot. You are wasting your own time, the time of anyone you are trying to get read your slop, and the compute/energy resources of the world.

Looking through these photos made me cry. It was such a sad summer but now I’m so grateful for all our time together in the yard. It will be so empty without him this spring.

An orange-brown husky standing in front of some rose bushes in a backyard

An orange-brown husky with a man kneeling and doing some pruning in a verdant backyard

A Munstead Wood dark red rose

A pink Alnwyck rose

Sometime in the next two months my bare root Lady of Shallot will arrive. I’m planning to pot it up with some of my dog’s ashes to be a memorial to him. He loved to hang out with me in the garden while I worked. His tufts of fur got caught in the thorns.

My potted roses have growth nodules 🥹 they survived the freeze

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

Xeirographa A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources.

Please share and give feedback!

xeirographa.com