Authors in Bloom

UPDATE as of 7 pm Central Time on Sunday, April 21st. The Truly Random Number Generator/Picker chewed over the comments and decided on #3. Congrats, Savannah; you are the winner of the book and magazine. Hope you’ll enjoy, and thanks to everyone for playing!   * * * Hello, and welcome to the Authors in Read More …

Architecture 101 – Queen Anne

Of all the Victorian house styles, Queen Anne is the most elaborate as well as the most eccentric. The style is often called romantic and feminine, yet it is the product of a most unromantic era – the machine age. Queen Anne became an architectural fashion in the 1880s and 1890s, when the industrial revolution was Read More …

Folk Victorian

Pale green in color, with gleaming white gingerbread trim, and surrounded by velvety grass and masses and masses of flowers, the house we were visiting was another impressive Victorian confection, such as I envisioned Aunt Inga’s house might one day look like. The doorbell rang with a somber, tolling sound that reverberated in the recesses Read More …