Monthly Archives: July 2011

The Healdsburg Farmers’ Market

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Marion

They served carrot cake at the Healdsburg Farmers’ Market.  It wasn’t just because I was there—the market was celebrating its 33rd birthday.   This market is a fair trek from my house, about half an hour whether I take the freeway … Continue reading →

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Just My Type

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Marion

      Kyle is on a summer adventure. She has a 1982 Chevy van van that she has stripped and outfitted with a variety of presses.  One is a flat press that she used to print “You’re Just my Type.”  … Continue reading →

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Green, by Jay Lake

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Marion

Green,the eponymous main character of JayLake’s fantasy novel, chooses her name as an act of defiance.  Her captors want to call her Emerald, but she rejects it. As a young child, three or four years old, Green is sold to … Continue reading →

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A Few Good Things

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Marion

Even with a holiday, it wasn’t shaping up to be a great week.  I got sad news about a 10-year co-worker over the weekend, and yesterday the mother of one of the supervisors I manage passed away after a battle … Continue reading →

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Dear CNN

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Marion

  First of all, my condolences.  The story of some person, somewhere in the USA, accused of killing another person, somewhere in the USA, has ended.  There has been a verdict.  You should be able to scavenge the carcass of … Continue reading →

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Music at the Saturday Market

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Marion

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A Red Herring Without Mustard–Update

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Marion

A Red Herring Without Mustard/Alan Bradley Delacourt Press, 2011 What do a pair of fire dogs shaped like foxes, a strange Protestant Dissenter sect, the smell of fish, a gypsy fortune-teller and her half-gypsy granddaughter have in common?  They are … Continue reading →

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