It’s all about accidents and chance. Did you ever run across some rediscovered artist online: some songwriter ignored in her own day whose friends preserved her manuscripts and recordings or author whose stories and poems were published in cheap, quickly discarded magazines? Years later, someone comes along and says “Hey, look at this!” andContinue reading “Hazel and Lavonne”
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Unsleeping Beauty: Multiple Threats
Affretz sat up and rubbed his eyes. Was something wrong? He couldn’t hear Deedee talking. There was nothing much to see but the wagon, the sinister forest, and the horses. He was about to call out when he heard Archels’s voice. “How could we let him get away? I wanted to findContinue reading “Unsleeping Beauty: Multiple Threats”
Love and Radishes
While I was refiling some of the postcards we examined in our meditations upon romance, the idea leaped out at me that we have been passing by a fairly common romantic association on postcards of the past. That is the connection between romance and food, the association of the stomach and the heart. TheContinue reading “Love and Radishes”
Not Getting It
More postcards have joined my inventory, and some of them prove to be (so far) beyond my intense scholarly research on the Interwebs. So I thought I might share some of the things I am clueless about. No, wait! Come back! I said SOME of the things. My space on this website is notContinue reading “Not Getting It”
Unsleeping Beauty: Stranger Meetings
What they were moving toward was, in fact, another castle. It was quite as large as the castle Dimity had grown up in, and even the larger one where her uncle had been kind. It could not be seen above the trees of the grisly grove, however because unlike the majority of castles, whichContinue reading “Unsleeping Beauty: Stranger Meetings”
Obstacle Course Love
With the onset of spring (inch of snow last Friday) we have been discussing postcard representations of romance. It is important to remember, however, that the course of true love runs never smooth. This is, in fact, the basis of a LOT of postcards, not to mention books, poems, plays, movies, soap operas, andContinue reading “Obstacle Course Love”
Beating About The Bushes
A fantasy artist once submitted an amazing illustration showing a skull-headed demon glaring hungrily at the viewer from in front of a complex and twisted grove of obviously cursed trees. The editor loved the drawing, but said “You’re not fooling me, you know. You just wanted to draw those interesting trees and added theContinue reading “Beating About The Bushes”
UNSLEEPING BEAUTY: Strangers Meet
“That was a sneeze!” said Archels, sitting up in the wagon, awake at once. “It was,” said Alain. “You don’t need to be the acutest prince in the world to know that.” A young woman stepped out from among the trees. The princes stared, for this was the first person they hadContinue reading “UNSLEEPING BEAUTY: Strangers Meet”
Madnesses of the Month
Well, here it is spring and, ignoring a few random blizzards to kill the sprouting tulips, we are prepared for spring pursuits: basketball tournaments, baseball games, and, of course, what we are told our hearts turn lightly to even though we know very well we’ve been pondering it all winter. So I thought we’dContinue reading “Madnesses of the Month”
Talk the Talk, Crawl the Crawl
Once upon a time, I lived in a town which had a large number of residents who claimed Irish heritage. But a vocal minority was of Bohemian ancestry, with the result that at this time of year, the greeting card racks were evenly divided between green cards for those who wanted to send aContinue reading “Talk the Talk, Crawl the Crawl”
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