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  • Sad Detectives

    Thank you for all your good wishes on my last post! It’s been a whirlwind around here, full of classes and rearranging furniture and counting down the last few weeks before school. And I’m suddenly realizing that we only have… Continue reading

    Sad Detectives

  • Afternoon Adventure: Newport, RI

    I love Newport. It’s one of my favorite things about living in Rhode Island: drive 45 minutes and you’re in the middle of a gorgeous port city, filled with historic houses and fun restaurants and bracing sea air. When my sister… Continue reading

    Afternoon Adventure: Newport, RI

  • Afternoon Adventure: Highclere Castle

    AKA: That time we went to Downton Abbey. We saw all sorts of wonderful things on our honeymoon. The Churchill War Rooms, the Tower of London, Stonehenge, the Sherlock Holmes Museum, a play with Sîan Phillips…and yet, now that we’re… Continue reading

    Afternoon Adventure: Highclere Castle

  • Dining at Downton: Flying Scotchman Cocktail

    I don’t know about you, but I’m still recovering from the season 3 finale of Downton Abbey. To be fair, I’d had some warning; my sister told me of Dan Stevens’ plans to leave the show long before that last… Continue reading

  • Dining at Downton: Irish stew

    I am known to get emotionally involved with fictional characters. When they fall in love, I swoon around the house. When they suffer heartbreak, I moan along with them. When they struggle to figure out what they really think about… Continue reading