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Weddings and Gardens

Today was the Beverly Hills Garden Walk. No, not THAT Beverly Hills; the one in Illinois, the neighborhood in south southwest Chicago. I live in an 1883 Victorian Queen Anne house with a large yard. I hate grass. Grass is, to me, a waste of yard space. Unless you are [...]

Hand-made Celebrations Are In

We are in the midst of preparations for two weddings. My sister in law is marrying her long time best friend in another state and my daughter is marrying hers a little closer to home. What is remarkable about both of these weddings is that they are not all that remarkable.
They are important, [...]

Review – Aristotle’s Children

Another book that has had a great influence on me recently is Richard Rubenstein’s popular history about the re-discovery of Aristotle in Medieval Europe and the profound changes it caused.
When researching works of fiction set in 14th Century France, as I did for “From All Things Evil,” we don’t necessarily want the kind of exhaustive [...]

Add Hominy

O’Shaughnessey has always been bewildered by us. By “us” I mean the human species. Leprechauns, like most immortal inhabitants of the Invisible World (to us anyway), find us intriguing, mysterious and not a little maddening.
Particularly baffling to O’Shaughnessey is what must appear to faeries as an intense intellectual tribalism, how we so distrust [...]