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Burningbird Just Shelley

Weblog Penance

How many times have I written about this change or that to my site? Not enough, it seems. I’m in the process of using that wonderful, magnificent site The Wayback Machine to recover posts from all my various incarnations of weblogs and whatnot sites. Yes, I do have backups from recent sites, but not the […]

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Just Shelley

Me and dolls

Scanning and uploading old family photos. My parents used to give cool gifts to my brother. Train sets, car sets, interesting toys that could do things. Me? Dolls. Want to know my opinion of dolls?

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Art Just Shelley

My mother’s pen and ink

The first image is “One of the Family”, by Frederick Cotman, painted in 1880. The second image shows the same painting, but this time in black and white from a magazine page. This second image is coated with ink marks, stains, and other signs of wear. The reason why is my mother used this painting […]