Jane Haddam

So, here we are, at the start of another term.  And I’m happy about that, mostly.  I get bored at home.  I get bored without sufficient to do.  I can only write so much before I start doing it badly. But there is something else on the table, and four months of trying to think…

I’d have used the other part of the lyric, but I already did that, as a post title, some time ago there. Anyway, it’s about three in the morning and I’m not getting anywhere.  Our downstairs air conditioner, the great big one, died the day before yesterday, and I’ve learned a couple of things. First…

Lurch was the first time I ever heard of a harpsichord, too, but the instrument on the old Addams Family television show always sounded more like an organ to me than a harpsichord. And I don’t much like organs or organ music. If you put Gustav Leonhardt into the search at YouTube, I think there…

Go here http://www.cwtg.com/redstone/ and my harpsichord, the one I want–is the 5th one down, the one based on the 1770 Shudi and Broadwood. And, yes.  Those things are not exactl

So, it’s some ridiculous hour of the morning, and I’m a complete mess, having been woken up at two–again–and unable to go back to sleep. But let me make a few notes here. First, there’s this link http://www.wga.hu/support/viewer/z.html which, with any luck, will work.  It’s of the Piccolomini Library in Siena.  And no, I don’t…

Well, not exactly. The book I’m working my way through may be a slog, but it’s in the same general area as the books I’ve been reading most of the summer, and all of those book center around painting. Don’t ask me why.  I’ve always liked looking at certain kinds of painting, and at Vassar…

It’s part 2 because I’m prettysure there’s an Ahem back there somewhere.  But I don’t want to look, so here we are. Let me frame this a bit. I’m in the middle of reading a book called Painting in Late Medieval and Fenaissance Siena, by Diana Norman. It is not a good book–if, by good,…

I was looking at Mike Fisher’s comment this morning, and thinking that it fit in so well with what I’ve been messing with lately, I ought to use it. So I will, but it’s going to have to be in layers. The first layer is in the obvious and the straightforward. My memories are, obviously,…

So, I’ve been sitting around thinking about the whole diminished expectations thing, and this is what I’ve come up with. I think the reason it doesn’t resonate for me is that I don’t really have any use for it. I started out with a set of things I wanted to accomplish, and I have by…

Or, you know, something. Or maybe not. I’ve got to say that the range of comments interested me yesterday. I’m not much interested in plastic surgery or in crones, to tell you the truth.  I’ve been in and out of academia long enough to have encountered the whole academic feminist crone thing, and the word…