Sick people in Victorian times got jellies. But water is even better. You can always slip some nutrition into the water! Toast Water Procure a
The Victorians and Edwardians put supreme faith in beef tea. Every invalid, every orphan, every wounded soldier, had to be fed beef tea. This (complete
Horatio Wood’s ‘Treatise on therapeutics’ (1879) says that “Barley-water is used as a nutritious, demulcent drink in fevers.” It is still in use. You can
Since the BVC blog 1.0 evaporated, this material has been lost, lost I tell you, to all modern knowledge. Pleas from far elsewhere have resurrected
For many years now I’ve planned to write a novel about Dante Alighieri, the Italian poet. The book didn’t work out (this is what I
A portion of this post first appeared on the CrimeReads, a blog dedicated to books about crime true and fictional, around the time when MARIAN
A portion of this post first appeared on the CrimeReads, a blog dedicated to books about crime true and fictional, in conjunction with the
I am not an organized marketer. All I really can do is write. Once written, stories or mss get submitted almost at random, to any
This recipe was given to me by a coworker at my office. She brings these nuts to all office functions and potlucks, and takes care
The essential tool for crazy creativity is a hot-glue gun. This is the tool that made Martha Stewart what she is today. With hot glue
Making tentacles for little boys is … constraining. I couldn’t insert wires into the center of the pool noodle, to make them bendable, because a
We’re all surrounded by a cloud of vocabulary. The words you know well, that you use daily, float nearby, coming easily to the hand. This
The trick to explaining something complex is to find the right analogy – and keeping half of it in the links. The Christian concept of
