December 2010
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Anais Nin and Jane Austen on the new kindle on...
Just received a kindle for christmas and of course I had to order a couple Anais Nin & Jane Austen ebooks immediately - even though I have New Orleans style sweet potatoes to cook. Spent a lovely morning and early afternoon exchanging gifts, eating bagels & capers and drinking mimosas. Then had to dash home (5 minute drive!) to get ready & cook… having a major time issue but...
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Happy Birthday, Jane Austen
Photograph taken of a Regency birthday cake I made for Jane Austen’s 235th birthday for my Janeite book club, “Austen in Boston“‘s party last weekend. Jane Austen, born December 16, 1775. Thank you Jane, for all your wit and words.
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it's my 35th birthday today... so it's my 'ballade...
Ballade at Thirty-five This, no song of an ingénue, This, no ballad of innocence; This, the rhyme of a lady who Followed ever her natural bents. This, a solo of sapience, This, a chantey of sophistry, This, the sum of experiments, — I loved them until they loved me. Decked in garments of sable hue, Daubed with ashes of myriad Lents, Wearing shower bouquets of...
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Ninon de Lenclos by Dorothy Parker
Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday by Dorothy Parker So let me have the rouge again, And comb my hair the curly way. The poor young men, the dear young men They’ll all be here by noon today.And I shall wear the blue, I think- They beg to touch its rippled lace; Or do they love me best in pink, So sweetly flattering the face? And are you sure my eyes are bright, And is it true my cheek...
