String o' Pearls

Actually, don't do that.  Don't call me.  Because like Prissy in Gone with the Wind, "I don't know nothin' about birth...

Well, I just updated from Windows 8 to Windows 10.  How do I like the change, you ask? AAAAGGGHHH!!!  Nothing is right in my computer wor...

During Christmas vacation in 1979, in the middle of my senior year at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, MA, I was home with my f...

Sorry that I haven't added many pearls of wisdom (or pearls of anything else, either) to this here string lately... Because, well, I...

I know it's Thursday, and this is a Wednesday link-up...but here is my Goodreads/Amazon review of Rosemary McLoughlin's Tyringham Pa...

Okay, if you're a "regular" here (and if you are, bless you!), you know that I wrote about my grandmother's house yesterd...

Yesterday, I wrote a WWRW post wherein I reviewed a book called The American Heiress , by Daisy Goodwin.  It revolves around a ridiculously...

Last week I wrote a WWRW post about a best-selling novel by Daisy Goodwin titled The American Heiress .   I had started it on my flight out...

I just love this 1895 painting of two sweet little boot-clad bookworms by eminent Impressionist artist Pierre August Renoir.  I forgot to lo...

I'm sitting down to start one of these posts. And I'm not even sure yet if I have 7 things to talk about.  But I'm going to w...

When I watched the long-awaited first episode of Season 4 of "Downton Abbey" the other night (hey, have you heard of this show--ha...

In this modern world where man-bashing is such a popular sport among women, I thought I'd join up with Kaitlin of More Like Mary~More Li...

Oh my gosh, you guys...you GUYS!  I made the most delicious dessert yesterday (if I do say so myself).  I had a hankering for something swee...