The Crown and the Blade 10/5/2025

By: Jennifer Richardson Holt My daughter is an avid reader. In this, she is very much like her mother. Few things delight her more than being swept into a good story. Yet she’s still at the age where reading can sometimes feel a little too much like schoolwork, so she occasionally needs encouragement to pickContinue reading “The Crown and the Blade 10/5/2025”

Scepter, Orb, Bat and Ball 5/7/2023

By: Jennifer Richardson Holt Today I think I will spare you from the saga that is my personal life. I hope all of you didn’t too terribly mind the past few weeks full of angst and drama. I think of you, my readers, as friends, hence I just begin to ramble off to all ofContinue reading “Scepter, Orb, Bat and Ball 5/7/2023”

Of Crown and Cotton 7/26/2020

By: Jennifer Richardson Holt Both my parents grew up picking cotton.  My mother’s family did so in the Appalachian foothills of northeastern Alabama. I am not entirely sure how they managed much by way of field agriculture there considering the rock to dirt ratio is roughly 200 to 2 but somehow apparently her family managedContinue reading “Of Crown and Cotton 7/26/2020”