Older Boy is working quietly; Younger Boy is working sporadically, taking many breaks to interrupt me in my office and Husband in his office-cum-bedroom. There's a bird outside my window chirping. Thought it was charming for the first 12 or 15 chirps. Now want to kill it. CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP. The insistence, the sheer repetitiveness [...]
This is a re-post from last year because this guy is inspiring! It’s the birthday of Jacques Futrelle (1875-1912, #diedtooyoung), lauded for his ingenious mysteries and best known for the oft-anthologized story “The Problem of Cell 13.” Futrelle’s career was unfortunately cut short when he went down with the Titanic, which he did bravely and [...]
A slightly rewritten re-post from two years ago. It’s the birthday of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen (b. 1805), who wrote plays, poems, novels, autobiographies, and more, but is most famous for his literary fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 150 languages. (Be honest: can you even *name* 150 languages?) Some of [...]