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2018: revolutions, resolutions and ramblings

January 16, 2018

The new year has just started, all shimmery and golden. As Anne (with an ‘e’) was rather fond of saying about tomorrow: the new year is fresh, with no mistakes in it. [Not that mistakes are something to worry about: we need to slip and stumble and fall to learn, … Continue reading →

Filed under : Miscellaneous Ramblings , On Living
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Tags : 2018 , Anne of Green Gables , Anne Shirley , Emily Madill , Esther Perel , New Year's Resolutions , Recycle , Reduce , Reuse , shop less live more , stand in your power , Where Should We Begin?

The girl in the red velvet swing

December 10, 2014

Gibson Girl Florence Evelyn Nesbit was born on Christmas Day in either 1884 or 1886 (her mother sometimes concealed her date of birth in order to get around those pesky child labour laws, so her true year of birth has been forgotten), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During her lifetime, she was … Continue reading →

Filed under : On art and other catastrophes , On Living
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Tags : Anne of Green Gables , Charles Dana Gibson , Evelyn Nesbit , Gibson Girl , Harry Thaw , Lucy Maud Montgomery , Madison Square Garden , Stanford White , The girl in the red velvet swing