Tag: Ohio

  • Review: Hillbilly Elegy

    Review: Hillbilly Elegy

    My first comment on this book is about the price. For a book whose purported audience is the working and welfare poor from Appalachia, the price set at 15.99 for ebook is a slap in the face. I don’t usually review a book on price, but in this rare case, it matters. JD Vance’s treatise,…

  • The New House

    The New House

    We went over to the new place today, and I finally got the photos of the inside I’ve been promising. Not a lot, since we were more interested in documenting issues (we’re renting, and a record of what it looked like when we moved in is important) and measuring rooms prior to hauling furniture. Since…

  • A Drive in the Country

    A Drive in the Country

    I’ve been busy this morning. But as I finished up with the project I was working on, and got ready to dive into writing, I remembered that I needed to blog! I have a really good series planned, in conjunction with the First Reader – we laid it out and talked it through during a…

  • Illustrating History

    A friend shared a link to a photo resource, and I had to pass it on. Photogrammar is a very nifty collection, curated by Yale University, of photos taken between 1935 to 1945. Whether you are a historian, writer, or photographer, there is something here for you. I was playing with the map, which enables…