Wordless Wednesday: Art from a Photo

The photo is from the 2008 trip MyGuy and i took to Hawaii.  The view is from the shelter on Spencer bBach north of Kona on the Big Island. 

Story from an Old Song

i wrote this last summer; i don't think i posted it then?
Anyone recognize my inspiration?


I was on my way out to gather eggs when i saw them.  Two

Wordless Wednesday: The Further Reaches of the Family Tree

  Among the pictures inherited from my aunt was a mid1800s album with the metal clasps worn away and barely recognizable as velvet-covered.  It shows my great-grandparents as young people, and, on the last page, is this woman.  My aunt explained

Subtle Agatha and her Subtext

  One of the joys of rereading old novels is all the things you missed before in your eagerness to get the story.  i think i mentioned the one about the fellow whom they thought had defected from England to Moscow, hoping he hadn't, in the British idiom, "gone West."
  Lately i reread one of my all-time favorites, "Cat Among the Pigeons."  The novel is somewhat more than 300 pages long.  In those pages, three women are referred to in terms marking them as unusual.  Essentially, these women are unusual because they do not give way to their emotions in extreme situations.
wow, sorry i was having a hard time getting the words to work yesterday.  It's one of the more heartfelt posts i've made recently.   
If you can get ahold of Goldman's novel, and your sensibilities allow it or you can read the whole thing  (highly recommended!) make sure you see the last two pages.  

What might Westley and Buttercup's life been like after they rode off into the sunset?  



And we can count on there being some new kid wanting to overcome the champion swordsman Inigo and strongman Fezzik - what happens then?  
What if Humperdinck decided to spend the rest of his life trying to recover his bride and his prize horses?  
Does Westley ever sleep again?  

Words on Not Quite on Wednesday: from a memoir to a book i'd never seen to a movie i'd loved

  One of the movies MyGuy and i saw when it first came out was The Princess Bride.
i think