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• Trying to find my ancestors in the 1890–1920 U.S. Censuses

  By ljd42 on March 31, 2025

  

  Censuses? Or should it be “censi”? (Or maybe even “censūs,” for us Latin scholars? I always liked the 4th Declension.) Whatever. The first problem is where to look. Google, of course, is your friend. And some people swear by various… Read More ›

• A close-up view of Neighborhood #5, Newtown

  By ljd42 on March 28, 2025

  

  Despite its name, the neighborhood of Newtown is actually the second oldest part of Rose City, being preceded only by the Center City neighborhood. (I guess that still made the name somewhat appropriate, comparatively speaking. It’s rather like the name… Read More ›

• They understand us across the pond.

  By ljd42 on March 26, 2025

  

  The Marsh Family responds quickly and on point:

• Jet Lag and The Amazing Race

  By ljd42 on March 24, 2025

  

  Eight years ago I wrote several posts for this blog about June Academy at Weston High School. You may want to read the first of those posts before continuing with this one. Anyhow, one of the courses offered for June… Read More ›

• Pretty as a Picture

  By ljd42 on March 19, 2025

  

  When you look at the front cover of Elizabeth Little’s Pretty as a Picture, you notice an apt blurb by Laura Lippman (see image below): “A twisty story, a cinephile’s delight, a knockout of a heroine. I loved it.” Let’s… Read More ›

• My 10 Favorite Books Redux

  By ljd42 on March 16, 2025

  

  When I just happened to be looking at a post I wrote 17 years ago (for reasons that I will explain below), I was surprised to realize that today’s list of my favorite books wouldn’t be very different from that… Read More ›

• Abigail on a pedestal

  By ljd42 on March 13, 2025

  

  She claims that she is so beautiful that she should be placed on a pedestal, preferably in a museum.

• Star Mangled Banner

  By ljd42 on March 11, 2025

  

  Founders sing:

• Is Runic Better than Roman?

  By ljd42 on March 9, 2025

  

  Should we use the Runic alphabet (which we actually used to use, but that was almost a couple of millennia ago) rather than the Roman alphabet (which we currently use)? Of course we should! Let’s see why. Our Roman alphabet,… Read More ›

• Not on the Test

  By ljd42 on March 6, 2025

  Recorded 16 years ago, but even more relevant today:

• Happy Ἐξελαύνω Day!

  By ljd42 on March 4, 2025

  

  In case you’ve forgotten, today is Exelauno Day. But surely you wouldn’t have forgotten such an important day, would you?

• If you need to get blood drawn for a routine medical exam…

  By ljd42 on March 3, 2025

  

  go to the lab at the Atrius Health office in Braintree! (I highly recommend it. This is an unsolicited testimonial.) My experience there yesterday can be summarized in three words: fast, efficient, painless. (Those adjectives describe the Atrius lab, not… Read More ›

• Good Lieutenant by E.J. Copperman

  By ljd42 on February 28, 2025

  

  Good Lieutenant is the sixth, the best, the most serious, and (alas) the last novel in Jeff Cohen’s Jersey Girl series of mysteries. But — wait, wait! important question here, I hear you cry — you said Jeff Cohen but… Read More ›

• Elon

  By ljd42 on February 26, 2025

• Tavolo

  By ljd42 on February 23, 2025

  

  It’s been a long time since we’ve been to Tavolo, largely due to weather and not being able to drive after dark. The solution today was to go to brunch! They were serving the regular dinner menu along with their… Read More ›

• Abigail’s Dilemma

  By ljd42 on February 21, 2025

  

  Abigail just received two presents to celebrate the monthiversary of her adoption. Now she can’t decide whether she prefers her new kitty bed (“So soft!” she exclaimed. “And it’s purple!”) or her new scratching post (“This gives me a view… Read More ›

• A close-up view of Neighborhood #4, Orchard Heights

  By ljd42 on February 20, 2025

  

  And now we move on to another neighborhood in my model railroad layout, a.k.a. Rose City: Orchard Heights is — wait for it — the Rose City neighborhood with the highest altitude. What a surprise! But it no longer has… Read More ›

• Written in the South Pacific during World War II

  By ljd42 on February 17, 2025

  This is a poem written by my dad in 1943 while he was serving in the U.S. Army in the South Pacific — not in Tahiti unfortunately, but in New Guinea in this case. During most of the war, however,… Read More ›

• Baskerville!

  By ljd42 on February 14, 2025

  

  Four years ago I wrote a post about the Baskerville typeface, Of course my post had to be titled The Font of the Baskervilles; I had no choice. And now we have an entire book called Baskerville, subtitled The Biography… Read More ›

• The Law of Innocence

  By ljd42 on February 11, 2025

  

  You’re wondering why Mickey Haller, the eponymous Lincoln Lawyer, would choose to represent himself. He even quotes the maxim that my father happens to have taught me when I was 11 years old or so: “He who represents himself has… Read More ›

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