From My Mental Library

Credit for this post clearly goes to my blogger friend Mel, whose post here made me comment, and the more I was thinking about the subject...

Several times on my blog, I have gone on about how I feel about the beginning of a new month, but I think a summary at the end of a month c...

Time for another recipe! This one is for Hefezopf (literally "Yeast Plait"), a typical Swabian cake usually had with coffee or ...

Years ago, my mother-in-law sent me the first three of four books of a series I have come to really enjoy: the Agatha Raisin series by M.C....

Friedrich II. (born 1196, died 1250) is someone I have been fascinated with since my teenage years, when I first read a biography of him. Fo...

No matter where I am, in a private home or a stately one, in a concert hall or a shopping mall, at the hairdresser's or in an office, I...

On one of the blogs I have recently begun to follow, the author shows pictures of his family which, even without the accompanying quotes a...