At the recommendation of Ella and Scott, I recently read Eragon. I can recommend it further. One of the things I like about it is the age of the author. I don’t mean that in the ‘my, isn’t he precocious’ kind of way that you might think. I mean that Christopher Paolini writes about things [...]
If you’ve been waiting, there are more photos of Leon in his private photo gallery! Unfortunately, Picassa’s web albums allow me to sort by date. . . but not reverse by date. That means you’ve got to go to the end of the album to find the new photos. I’ll probably start a new gallery [...]
I’m talking, of course, of the Teddy-bear Roosevelt. (Though, when I get around to reading about his more famous nephew, I think I’ll like him, too.) I just finished the first volume of a biography on Teddy (thanks, Nelli and Michael!) and, towards the end, I found this letter he’d written. It sums up well [...]