Earl Grey is an odd kind of beast. Most Americans would probably name it, if asked to talk about tea. It’s a standard black tea, usually made with Assam, and flavored with bergamot.
Author Archives: alsohoney
The Making of: French Porcelain
The Sèvres factory was renowned as one of the best porcelain manufacturers in Europe at the time. Originally housed in the royal château at Vincennes, it changed facilities to Sèvres in 1756, and three years later was bought outright by Louis XV.
Character Conundrum: Annabeth Chase
Constant vigilance, it seems, is the only way to make a difference in the world’s view of who is important, and who is not.
Legacy of the Lavender Footstool
Every time I paint something, there’s a stage where I hate it. Normally that stage is somewhere between coats of paint. Sadly, I’m in that stage now, with the finished product.
The Real Boy by Anne Ursu
On an island where magic is contained by a forest of wizard-trees in a place called the Barrow, an eleven-year-old boy named Oscar lives in the basement of a magician’s shop
The Character Conundrum: Chasing Butterflies
Every night, I waited for Peter Pan to take me to Neverland. That’s not a joke. All you preteens waiting for your Hogwarts letter had no idea how bad it could really be. I wasn’t old enough to even consider that Peter Pan might be fictional. I really waited. And waited.
February Reading
This month I’ll be reading The Real Boy by Anne Ursu, about a young magician’s hand. Check out this review by Corrine Duyvis for disability in kidlit.
The Histories: Honey
When I was about six, I discovered honey.
Little Green Sewing Cabinet
A sewing cabinet is a small, convenient, sometimes spindly legged and wheel-footed, hollow work table.
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