And One Year Later…

I’ve faithfully paid the bills, keeping my internet home ready and waiting, just in case the blogging bug should bite again. And it is nibbling a bit… We’ll see what comes of it. Just wanted to post a bit of something, on this anniversary of–not, uh, posting anything. *sheepish grin*

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With a “Happy Belated Valentine’s Day” to you all! Favorite Jane Austen Novel: Pride and Prejudice Favorite Jane Austen Movie: Pride and Prejudice, 1995 A&E version Favorite Jane Austen Hero and Heroine: Henry Tilney and Catherine Morland from Northanger Abbey [One of My] Favorite Jane Austen Quote[s]: “Elizabeth, on her side, had much to do. [...]

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Nearly two weeks ago, I was tagged by Caroline from Standing in the Sunlight in a game of, uhh… let me count ‘em… Seventeen Questions! I’m breaking the official tagging-game “Rules” by not tagging any new friends (seeing as most of my friends have been tagged already), but the questions were just too much fun [...]

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Good Words

There’s a part near the beginning of C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra in which the narrator speaks of the terror which the word “haunted” inspires: “Haunted”…”haunting”…what a quality there is in that first syllable! Would not a child who had never heard the word before and did not know its meaning shudder at the mere sound [...]

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