Swag to the Rescue I’m at my daughter’s! She gave me Monday to recover from a week of travel preceding this Minneapolis visit to chill and organize my contacts from the conference. It is a good thing she is at work; I’m a bit under the weather today and wouldn’t be a lot of fun […]
Surprise! I'm not Boycotting Coca-Cola at BlogHer
Surprise! There was no content here other than my great title when this post went up. Why? Well, that is the stuff of another very important post on security that I will try to get up later in the day. Long story short, security maven me had my iPad pick-pocketed on the CTA train, the […]
A 19th C. Bookplate for Wordless Wednesday, a Day Late.
A Book Plate that is in the Public Domain This book-plate is from a book of collected book-plates by Frank Brangwyh, , 1867-? and Eden Phillpotts, 1862-1960. The plate was for the library of Mario Borsa. The only alteration I have made to the image was to crop it and extend the black border to […]
Cayo Santiago, Chaucer and Change
As part of a “blog hop” for the Generation Fabulous site/magazine I am writing on the topic of Transformative Travel. (How I dislike that phrase, blog hop, there has to be a better one.) Where do I start? I love travel. I grew up on a farm and Summer was not a time of vacations. […]
I Want To Be On This Chicago Sea Dog Cruise!
I really wanted to go on this cruise on July 24th, the night before the BlogHer Pre-con, but I missed the deadline for posting the info – included below – to be entered into a pool of bloggers who could attend. Drat. But as I was doing some PR for a post I wrote about […]
Indulgence and the Art of Prompt
There is a GBE2 blogging prompt for this week, it is a group I follow and in which I take part although I do not engage as often as I feel I should participate. I just could not resist the prompt from this week: Indulgences. Should I treat the topic as it relates to hedonic […]