Today at Risky Regencies I’m telling about my visit to the Threads of Feeling exhibit, on loan to the DeWitt Museum in Colonial Williamsburg. The exhibit, from the 18th century, displays several of the thousands of tokens left by mothers at the Foundling Hospital in London so that their babies could be identified when they [...]
A much calmer week here in the old household, calm enough that the dh and I went on a walk. Our weather the past two days has been exceptional. Clear blue skies. Low humidity. Temperatures in the low 70s. This is Virginia at its best and most beautiful. It doesn’t take much to find the [...]
I have a cold. I rarely get one, so I’m feeling a bit miserable at the moment. I’m just resting, drinking plenty of fluids, and blowing my nose a lot. I was curious as to what advice I’d be given for treating this cold had I lived during the Regency, so I looked it up [...]
I’m preparing for my workshop at Washington Romance Writers Spring Retreat and thinking about the use of historical events in the series. Downton Abbey begins with the sinking of the Titanic and includes such things as the Battle of Somme, the Spanish Flu epidemic, the Easter rising in Ireland, the Labour Movement in politics. In [...]
Another museum post! Recently I was in Williamsburg visiting the in-laws and visited the DeWitt Wallace museum for the first time. This is a lovely museum! The museum opened in 1985, and features American and British decorative arts -furniture, metals, ceramics, glass, etc. – from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, the times of Historic [...]
Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark, Whose worth’s [...]
Last weekend we visited the in laws and took a drive to Gloucester Courthouse in Gloucester, Virginia. One of the things I love about Virginia is the history that permeates the state. We were, after all, the land of the first English settlement at Jamestown. Gloucester is about 35 miles from Jamestown and is directly [...]
I have lost track of days! That is my only excuse for forgetting my blog yesterday. It has been a problem all week. Several times I’ve had to consciously remind myself what day it was. Not only was I forgetting what day it was, I also was forgetting what tasks belonged to each day. Like [...]
To all my Regency and Reader friends, I hope you have a very Merry Christmas. May all holidays you celebrate be merry. At Risky Regencies today, we are bringing in the Yule Log and reciting a verse. Stay safe and warm and may you have some time to read a great Christmas story!
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