Dawn Reader

2015 This past Sunday I baked--once again--the Christmas tree bread that I've baked every year for, oh, too long. (I did a post abou...

Valperga So … Mathilda and Maurice were two of her writing projects during her sad sojourn in Italy, 1818–1823. But these were small...

1. AOTW : Please! It's not that  hard to use your turn signal! 2. This week I finished Jeremy Lewis' biography Tobi...

When I was a kid, here's what I hated about Christmas (not counting my certainty  that my brothers' presents were better than mine...

It’s always risky to look at a writer’s work in search of autobiographical shadows haunting it. Most biographers say something like thi...

Well, there's a hint at the top of the page. The is my 1400th post on DawnReader, and (is my wont) I'll pause today to write a lit...

Okay, enough old-man-getting-off-the-subject stuff (when roads diverge in a yellow wood, I seem, on the page, to be able to be one trav...