So much has happened since Saturday.
Continue reading “Coronavirus Quarantine Day 5”Coronavirus Quarantine Day 5
Coronavirus Quarantine: Day One
It has begun. Kind of.
Continue reading “Coronavirus Quarantine: Day One”Saturday Morning Coffee
To say it’s been a week is an understatement.
Continue reading “Saturday Morning Coffee”Super Tuesday
If you’re state’s primary is today and you haven’t already voted, please do so.
If your preferred candidate is still running, vote for them.
Candidates are electable if people vote for them. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.
That’s Another Record
Yesterday I went to the thrift store and found some more records for the collection.
Continue reading “That’s Another Record”Shrove Monday, 1583
OTD in history, (Feb 24, 1583) John Eldred departs London on the Tiger, bound for Aleppo, Syria. Returning in 1588 on the Hercules with a wealth of riches, particularly in nutmeg, his journals would inspire Shakespeare to write “her husband’s to Aleppo gone, master o’ the Tiger”.
I am his direct descendant.
He is the subject of my next book.
Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Incidentally, Feb 24, 1583, was Shrove Monday, too.
