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In yesterday's post I said Sarah Thorn's poems celebrate intelligence and intellectual brilliance. Here's an example. This poem ...

I've been thinking about the cultural environment in which my great- great-grandmother, Sarah Thorn, grew up. She was born in 1816 in A...

Here's another poem from the commonplace book of my great- great-grandmother, Sarah Thorn. My Heart And Lute I give the all I can no mo...

Kurt Vonnegut is a favorite author -- particularly Julia's -- and he's in the news. Vonnegut, on politics, presidents and libraria...

Click image for full view. This chart comes from Encarta via United States National Debt (1938 to Present, An Analysis of the Presidents Who...

I named our family web site after Montesquieu. Recently, in updating my email address list as we prepare for the family runion in November,...

OCLC is a bibliographic service used by many thousands of libraries worldwide. One of its member libraries recently contributed the billion...

The internet provides a wonderful range of services for book readers. Here's a new one: What Book Should I Read Next From the FAQ WSIRN...

This is from one of the library blogs in my RSS aggregator. An information society? Some media experiences in the last day or two: A TV ad:...

Here are a few of the writings of Sarah Lefman. In these poems I think you can see some of the cultural pressures on a young woman in the ye...

I've a new cyclecomputer. It gives me lots of information that I don't use: speed tendency, acceleration/deceleration, max speed, ....

My Super Mario 64 sleep shirt was on the top of the pile earlier this week so it's been on my back a couple of nights. It's a nice ...

For Julia: This site calls itself the Biggest Theatre Glossary on the Web. Theatrecrafts.com - Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms In additi...

Here is a letter from Hannah Wolf, step-sister to Sarah Lefman, my great- great-grandmother. It's probably a draft of something she mai...

I was going to post about something else and then a headline caught my eye: 'Intelligent design' rule faces court test Washington — ...

The British Library now offers a digital version of Lewis Carroll’s original ‘Alice’ manuscript . The site says: "Alice’s Adventures U...

I haven't done a pointer to Crooked Timber or Cliopatria in a while. They're both group blogs, both academically oriented; despit...

I suffered two flat tires yesterday on my home-bound commute. The first one was easily fixed. The tire had lost air during the day and I r...

I'm fond of idiosyncrasies: organic, sometimes chaotic growths that seem to have no rhyme nor reason. I encounter them fairly frequentl...

I'm composing this rapidly during my lunch break. I've gotten a third the way through the third volume of Neal Stephenson's Baro...