Posts Tagged: The New York Times
To all of my American friends, Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a re-post from one I wrote a few years back, about the similar ways in which Thanksgiving was celebrated a hundred years ago. Food, football, helping those in need…notice that Black Friday is conspicuously missing. Enjoy your holiday, Kathy ————————————————- Check out these snippets of late-19th/early-20th…
You may have noticed that there’s a lot of blue in my website’s new look. Out of the various options that website developer Laird Sapir and I considered, the blue wallpaper looked absolutely right to me. At the time I didn’t think about why that might be; I just went with my instincts. Then I ran across…
Call me strange, but I love to do research. It’s like a scavenger hunt: one source leads you to another, which leads you to…a dead end. Then you have to pick a different trail to follow. Like you other researching folks out there, I have a ton of bookmarks and tags, but only directly…
