Folks, did you ever realize that - the kindly footman who gives Elizabeth directions at Netherfield (P&P '95) - Thomas the Hartfield butler (Beckinsale Emma) - Baddely the Mansfield Park butler ('83) ...are all the same person? 🤯 #janeausten

Oh my goodness, nothing more mesmerizing than the Lipizzaner white stallions on a snowy Vienna day. ❄️ They’re born dark and slowly turn white as they grow up, which just makes them even more magical. 🤍 🐎

If you're battling a roll of wrapping paper this week, try the Bertie Wooster method.

The Wexford Carol, music from 12th century Ireland, the oldest Christmas Carol still sung today. Happy Christmas from the west of Ireland 🎄

“Here’s to a Merry Christmas” Charles M. Russel

I just love this illustration style. Lasted right up through the 1940s or so, really.

winter in pride and prejudice (1995)

One of my favorite stories I wrote this year will be going behind the paywall after New Year's, so catch it now! secondsentence.substack.com/p/the-monster-…

There are options here. It could be WAR AND PEACE, it could be LES MISERABLES, it could be THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO.

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: When (future) famed short story writer O. Henry aka William Sydney Porter was growing up in North Carolina he was plagued by a persistent cough that concerned a family friend, Dr. James Hall. The fear was that young William's cough was the onset

Yes to all of this!

First year where if you ask me to say the title of my top nonfiction read, I'm like this:

January 1905. Elkhart, Indiana. (Indiana Historical Society)