I Want [peppermint] Candy

October 10, 2018

A friend regularly sends me bonnet descriptions from the inventories she’s researching; one description was of a white silk bonnet …

Black and Blue

August 21, 2018

Unlike some of my earlier posts, this Black and Blue refers to a different kind of historical effect: the purely …

August 15, 2018

Reader, it is hot where I live. June, July, and August are tiresome months here, humid and warmer than what …

July 26, 2018

Sometimes this is a hard hobby to love. My hands hurt, my creativity feels dead, and there’s no place …