Deborah YaffeDec 30, 2021Saved!Genuinely good news – a commodity that’s been in short supply this past year – came our way earlier this month, with the announcement...
Deborah YaffeDec 27, 2021Ending on a high noteThis past year, we can probably all agree, hasn’t been one of the planet’s best. But there’s still time to end 2021 on a happier note –...
Deborah YaffeDec 23, 2021Stocking stuffersChristmas is almost here, but I have no sugar plums or partridge-equipped pear trees with which to gift my blog readers. Instead, I will...
Deborah YaffeDec 20, 2021Austen womenJane Austen isn’t just for girls, of course, but the Austenesque tidbits that the internet has tossed my way lately happen to focus on...
Deborah YaffeDec 16, 2021Many happy returnsTwo hundred and forty-six years ago today, a daughter was born to Cassandra Leigh Austen and her husband, the Reverend George Austen. The...
Deborah YaffeDec 13, 2021Never heard of himIn George Orwell’s 1984, the dictatorial regime ruling Oceania requires its minions to drop documentation of inconvenient historical...
Deborah YaffeDec 9, 2021Crunch timeKids! Always leaving their homework to the last minute! Last summer, as blog readers will recall, a British judge sentenced a young man...
Deborah YaffeDec 6, 2021On this day in 1814. . . Seventieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The author of Pride and Prejudice may have been an anonymous...
Deborah YaffeDec 2, 2021Jane and the feathered friendJane Austen assuredly never saw a penguin: According to the Zoological Society of London, it wasn’t until 1865, nearly fifty years after...