I am thrilled to welcome pre-orders for Crécy: Battle of Five Kings! For years I’ve been thinking about this massive and important battle, trying to determine what happened on the fields of northern France in 1346 … and where those fields even were! Working on such questions, Kelly DeVries and …
I haven’t done that much blogging on the blog here. You can blame Twitter, which allows me to pump my news in bite-sized candies rather than full-sized bars. You can also blame the fact that I’ve been pretty busy. How busy? Well, in an effort to try to keep things …
The Knack Pack Series 2 is a magnificent, convertible, multi-sized, professional travel pack for One Bag Life. Picture the nicest Swiss-army knife you can imagine: flexible, practical, but damn good looking. This is the luggage version of that knife. It’s the best travel pack I’ve ever enjoyed. Quick Pros: Convertible …
Rosie Cotton came into our lives broken, the victim of some unknown puppy mill. She’d spent most of her life in a concrete cell — somewhere in North Carolina, we think — churning out Frenchie puppies. When her little body couldn’t handle it any longer, she was discarded. Her back …
Our daughter is, we think, part-fish, so with public pools closing or otherwise a source of concern in the pandemic, we decided to buy an above-ground pool from Wal-mart. We’ve actually had one of these before, and you should know that out of the box they’re a complete pain. Between …
