Connection

What we have here is a collection of links that have piqued my interest over the past few months.

Dieselpunk  travel

Pan Am Clipper Flying Boats: I would love to go back in time and fly on one of these. Inside the Zeppelin: very cool interior shots of the Graf Zeppelin. Another means of travel [...]

Little Bit

My next YA read is an imaginary medieval epic, with talking animals. Fourth in a series of fifteen.

Petersen, David (2007). Mouse Guard: Fall 1152. NJ: ASP Comics, LLC. 192 pages.

Summary and evaluation: Mice have always struggled to survive in a harsh world, and so the Mouse Guard was formed. In times of [...]

Down All The Days

I added more pictures of the Rocket; they’re all from the DSLR I’ve been using since we returned home.

The Boxer

The Thinker

A Few Minutes Of Silence

Luckily Madeleine’s grandparents are not ‘old country.’

The Things We Did And Didn’t Do

We are home and adjusting to life with Madeleine. Adjusting with a capital ‘A’ – the Rocket can be a holy terror when she has a mind to do so, as should be expected of a girl who was yowling even before the surgeon yanked her out of the womb. Sounds like angry hornets she [...]

You Are The Everything

Madeleine Ailidh, born 16 October 2009.

“Hail Queen of Heaven, the ocean star, Guide of the wand’rer here below: Thrown on life’s surge, we claim thy care- Save us from peril and from woe. Mother of Christ, Star of the Sea, Pray for the wanderer, Pray for me.”

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Hang Me Out To Dry

Well, I finally cracked and joined facebook.  Them as wants and knows how can find me there. Pictures and the like will still go here.

Bastards Of Young

My next YA read brings us to present-day London. Third in a series of fifteen.

Hornby, Nick (2007). Slam. NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. 309 pages.

Summary and evaluation: The gist of Slam is pretty straightforward: fifteen-year-old Sam Jones gets his girlfriend Alicia pregnant. She decides to keep the baby, meaning both of their lives are [...]