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Chapter 24, Excerpted from The Tale of Castle Cottage For readers of my Substack post, “The Cottage Tales Narrator” I’m sure you want to hear all about the wedding, don’t you? Imagining this wonderful event, I felt it would be delightfully appropriate if Miss Potter and Mr. Heelis were to be married at St. Peter’s […]

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I’m stashing my short fiction and nonfiction on my Substack site.  Currently, there are three completed short reads there, with a fourth (“A Collage to Kill For”) launching in May 2024. I’m also revising an out-of-print publication, Herbs of the Zodiac—planning to launch that (on Substack) as an illustrated 12-episode booklet sometime later this summer. […]

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China Bayles left her legal career and came to Pecan Springs to get away from the hypercompetitive world of justice and the law. But her herb shop isn’t always the refuge she hopes–especially when the past comes calling.

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I learned one of my favorite words—lagniappe–when I lived in New Orleans in the early 1980s. It’s a French-Louisiana-Cajun noun that means “a little something extra,” a bonus, a gift. I first heard it over a very large platter of very large, just-shelled oysters, a bountiful lagniappe for residents and visitors to the most exotic […]

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By now, you probably know that (starting Aug 7) I’m moving my monthly newsletter (All About Thyme) and my blogs (LifeScapes, BookScapes) to Place & Thyme, on Substack. The books and resources will still be right here, of course, and I’ll cross-post here a couple of times a month. But community sharing is easier and more […]

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As many of you already know from the latest LifeScapes post, I’ve decided to move my blogs  over to  Place & Thyme on Substack. Place & Thyme will launch on Aug. 7, with the August issue of “All About Thyme.” SusanAlbert.com is a good catalog of my books and resources, but WordPress doesn’t make it […]

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Did you ever happen on a phrase that suddenly kicked something off in you, way outside its original context? That’s happened to me more than once-most recently, when I was interviewing Janet Tyson about her work on Elizabeth Blackwell, the historical character in Hemlock. Janet began her research project in her mid-60s, she said, so she have […]

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One of things I love about doing what I do is the opportunity to meet and be in touch with fascinating people who are doing interesting things. Recently, I posted an interview with Marta McDowell, celebrating her publication of  the first modern edition of A Curious Herbal, the landmark herbal compiled by Elizabeth Blackwell in […]

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I think I’ll file this under “six degrees of separation.” See what you think. I’ve been a fan of Rachel Maddow since 2008. I’ve read her books (Drift, Blowout, Bag Man) and listened to her first two podcasts (Bag Man and Ultra) more than once. The first episode of her latest podcast—Deja News—was released last […]

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This fragile-looking beauty–blooming all across the Texas Hill Country this week–is Centaurea Americana, the basketflower. And yes, if you’re thinking it looks a lot like a bachelor’s button or cornflower, you’re right on the money.  They belong in the same family. It got its common name from the intricate interwoven pattern of bracts on the underside […]

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