Category: reading

The Proustian Force is With Me

by Lisa | Dec 21, 2015 | arts & culture, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, reading | 3 |

As near as I can tell, I am the only person in the United States — perhaps in the Western...

Another Post About Proust

by Lisa | Nov 6, 2013 | arts & culture, my eccentric friends, reading | 3 |

If you are wondering why there is a sudden barrage of posts from me, and you didn’t see the...

A Post About Proust

by Lisa | Jul 19, 2013 | arts & culture, reading | 4 |

I’ve spent most of my adult life avoiding Proust. As a Literature major, believe me, this...

Don’t Raintree on my Parade

by Lisa | Mar 17, 2013 | reading | 3 |

I rediscovered Audiobooks through Audible about a year ago when I decided to try to train myself...

Long May He Run

by Lisa | Dec 21, 2012 | arts & culture, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, reading | 3 |

Having just finished Trollope’s entire Palliser series on audiobook — six novels of...

A Load of Old Trollope

by Lisa | Dec 19, 2012 | arts & culture, reading | 1 |

I have no idea where this British saying came from. I suspect, like “give you the...

A Dollop of Trollope

by Lisa | Oct 6, 2012 | arts & culture, reading | 2 |

Actually, Anthony Trollope doesn’t come in dollops. He comes in great long sprawling novels...

What I Saw at the Media Shit Storm

by Lisa | Dec 6, 2011 | blogging, politics, reading | 14 |

It may have seemed that I have been MIA from blogging for the month of November, but believe me, I...

A Real Deal SEAL

by Lisa | Nov 3, 2011 | my eccentric friends, reading | 9 |

We all want to know what REALLY happened in Abbottabad the night the Navy SEALs took down Bin...

In a Former Life, I Was Shirley MacLaine

by Lisa | Apr 13, 2011 | reading | 11 |

Truthfully, I don’t know if I was or not. But I wish I could be Shirley in some incarnation...

In Praise of Small Town Media

by Lisa | Mar 25, 2010 | arts & culture, reading, Sonoma | 10 |

Back up in Sonoma, and after only three days away, I’m anxious to catch up on the news....

Catcher on the Mississippi

by Lisa | Jan 28, 2010 | arts & culture, reading | 12 |

The announcement of J.D. Salinger’s death has me thinking about my favorite alienated,...

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A Yank. A Brit. Two Terriers. A Vineyard. And a Dream.

Being the true-life adventures of two city kids and two spoiled terriers as they transition to a life of winemaking and organic farming in Sonoma. You know Green Acres? It’s like that.

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Things About Me

“cherthumb”
There are reasons I’m not famous.

piano-ornament
I have the world's largest Christmas music collection.

donnysquare
I'm an unashamed Donny Osmond fan.

I get wildlife drunk.

My terriers have famous friends.

I've got a tiny RV