"All Bewty, and the Ornaments of it, are Naturally designd for the outsides of things, and not their inward Parts: For if the Inside of the Bewtifullest Creature in the World were turnd outward, nothing could appeare more Gastly, and horrible..."

- Samuel "Hudibras" Butler

for Mary

"The activity of muscle is no obstacle to thought."

-Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn

I'm Here

What's Happening In Your Book Now?

Remembering Summer

My Evening with Derek

This Weekend's Cake

My mother repeatedly told me not to sweat the small stuff. Did she know that I would come to live in a drawer labeled small stuff?

What's Happening In Your Book Now?or, the crowings of a Gallic cock who speaks a very pure and racy French

From This Weekend's Market

final outdoor market of the season