How “Normal” Am I?
December 31, 2022
My youngest son came from Vegas over Christmas. On Christmas Eve, we stayed up till around midnight just talking about stuff. I mentioned that like
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December 2022 Reading
December 31, 2022
Jude The Obscure– Thomas Hardy (1896) Jude the Obscure is a novel about a common man. The intro says it was the first novel with a lower-class lead
Traditional Christmas Stuff: No 5
December 24, 2022
I finished reading A Christmas Carol this morning. I decided to read it over a few mornings, rather than all at once. I was thinking of
Traditional Christmas Stuff: No 4
December 20, 2022
I watched Miracle on 34th Street this evening. Pretty good movie, had some humorous moments in it. Little girl Natalie Wood, who played Susan, pretty
Traditional Christmas Stuff: No 3
December 18, 2022
So today I bought some stuff to make a Gingerbread house. I love the recipes from Serious Eats, so I chose this one for my
Ancestry DNA Results
December 17, 2022
I was given an Ancestry.com DNA kit a while back. My sister-in-law had ordered an extra, so she just gave it to me. It took
Wide Sargasso Sea- Jean Rhys (1966)
December 15, 2022
This is supposed to be a prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, describing the background of Mr Rochester’s first marriage to the mad woman, Bertha. Wikipedia calls
Traditional Christmas Stuff: No 2
December 14, 2022
I watched White Christmas last night on Netflix. So I’ve now taken another step to get my life right by being able to say I’ve
Traditional Christmas Stuff: No 1
December 13, 2022
It’s A Wonderful Life- check! I made a list of the some of the traditional Christmas stuff that I had never actually done and set about
Traditional Christmas Stuff
December 10, 2022
So there are some traditional Christmas things that I’ve never actually done. 1) Read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol I’ve been on a reading binge for
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.”
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.