Under the Gables

Woman cleaning grain outside her home. The following is taken from Rumer Godden's short story "The Oyster," about a young Indi...

A woman embroidering in India From "Rahmin," a short story by Rumer Godden: In Calcutta, where I lived, the chiken-wallahs worked...

This past week, quite by accident, I had the great pleasure of reading two novels about young English girls in India. First I read The River...

Carl Larsson's living room--that's a line of pink geraniums in the window. Whenever I think of geraniums in the window, I also think...

Geraniums in the front window at the left... and on the right. From the outside. Upstairs in the study window.

Geraniums by Childe Hassam, 1859-1935, American impressionist For many years, I have had geraniums on the windowsills in my house. If you ha...

Laundry folded by my daughter this week. My daughter learned how to do the laundry at the age of 10, since I was working long hours. She was...