Today is the birthday of both Barbara Tuchman and Lloyd Alexander. I am very fond of Tuchman’s book, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, a history of France during the high Middle Ages. However, I must enjoy reading about the Middle Ages more than I like reading about WW I because I have yet to finish The Guns of August. Lloyd Alexander is one of my favorite fantasy authors (after CS Lewis and Tolkien, of course).

We’ve been having a Green Acres marathon around here for the past few days. We borrowed a DVD of a dozen or so episodes, and my children have enjoyed the silliness immensely.

Quotation for the day: “Getting used to new wallpaper is like trying to push a purple straw hat through a keyhole.” –Mr Haney
Oliver comments to Lisa: “Don’t even try to understand.”