The Night Owl’s Reading List

March 5, 2012

I don’t have a blogroll in my sidebar anymore, mainly because the dang things are just so hard to keep current. Instead I do this. When the spirit moves me, I write up a quick little rundown of some of the more splendid blogs that I’m reading at the moment, in the hopes that you [...]

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Mailbag: All Your Downton Abbey Questions Answered

February 25, 2012

Downton Abbey fever has the world held tight in its elegantly gloved hands, it seems. It’s kind of insane. Folks who normally wouldn’t be caught dead setting their DVRs to PBS on a Sunday night are suddenly ravenous for the dirty details of Lady Mary’s sex life (hint: she has one), Lady Edith’s love life (not [...]

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Shrove me shrove me

February 21, 2012

It should come as a surprise to nobody that I am deeply into ritual. Ritual of any kind, really. Daily, weekly, annual, sublunar. Doesn’t matter. I’m just a total sucker for it all. So things like Lent, even though I’m not really fully signed on with the whole church project, as it were, are pretty [...]

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This living hand

February 13, 2012

One of the benefits of living in a house that has been lived in by several generations of your family is that there are ghosts lurking around just about every corner. What, you don’t count that as a benefit? I’m not talking about those unsettling moments when my cat wakes up from a dead sleep [...]

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Wild rose

February 5, 2012

I am the opposite of a packrat. I am a thrower out of things. This tendency has only been amplified now that I live in a tiny house by the sea. Tiny houses have very little room for stuff. So it always surprises me to discover the things that I somehow manage to hold on [...]

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