So Handy
In the 16th century, when lace trimmed handkerchiefs were the height of fashion at Queen Elizabeth‘s court, it was customary to attach one’s handkerchief to the left sleeve. Handkerchiefs, however, didn’t come into common everyday use until the 17th century—simultaneously with…
Usually, I’m slightly skeptical of such reports, but the scope of Harvard Medical School’s recent study on the spread of happiness is really impressive. Over 20 years, scholars studied a group of around 50,000 people to determine how happiness spreads…
Wisconsin Death Trip
Wisconsin Death Trip is a book I come back to again and again, shop although it chills me to my bones. In the early Seventies, pharm author Michael Lesy assembled dozens of glass plate photographs, all taken in Jackson County,…
Yes, it’s taken me more time than I would have liked to post, as I’m traveling this week. But the idea of ‘posting’ got me thinking about what ‘posting’ would have meant during the days of the Pony Express. We…
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