Laurabelle’s Blog

For years I've been meaning to read Mary Stewart's Arthurian novels, and then this fall The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, and The Last Enchantment practically fell into my lap in used bookstores. (How could I not give them a loving home?) I finished The Crystal Cave last night. I'm kind of disappointed to find that [...]

Over Christmas, when my family was moving Grandmama to Dallas, my father told me that my cousin Allison was a better person to accompany Grandmama in the car because she is a good comforter. I can do it if I need to, but she's better. I think that's a fair assessment, but I'm growing up [...]

Yesterday as I was waking up I heard some commentary on NPR which mirrored some thoughts I had heard myself, namely the similarities between this coming war and the crusades. Of course I'm simplifying and condensing all the crusades into one, which is not fair to the complexity of that history, but I don't know [...]