Still Life With Cat

What are the odds of reading two new novels in 24 hours that both reference this painting, I wonder. But having done so, I felt compelled t...

It's been nearly eleven and a half years since I bought and moved into my little house, a ten-minute drive from this beach. Some days it...

This post began life as a comment on this post over at Helen's Cast Iron Balcony, but once I'd violated the three-paragraph comment...

This is a post for Stephanie , scholar and medievalist extraordinaire, who probably knows these pictures. Last week I read a horror novel by...