http://ornamentalpeanut.com//ornamentalpeanut.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js We have moved, as of October 21, into our new old house in High Falls, in the Hudson Valley. We are told the kernel of the house was begun in 1803, and it passed through a period as the John Forbes Hotel. It’s a little beat up – heat not functioning on one side, multiple […]
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A New Beginning.
07-Apr-20In Paradisum David Morgan.
08-Feb-13There is not much that can be done in the face of our certain mortality. Two nights ago I heard from friends that David Morgan, professor of French Literature at Furman University and for several years one of the teachers at Rusticatio Virginiana, lay on his deathbed and had probably only hours to live. I […]
A Tale of Home Birth, Part 3 (of 3).
06-Mar-16Kampung Ayer Keroh And now our children were safely born, we looked around us. The midwives were cleaning up. The children’s water had not broken until they were being delivered, and for our daughter that meant right on the bed. The amniotic fluid was mixed with blood and formed a pool in the center of the bed where […]