I’m getting excited! I received my first copies of Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage recently and it looks great, if I do say so myself! Hats off to everyone at Thunder’s Mouth for pulling it all together. You readers should be able to have it in your hands sometime in March or […]
Month: February 2006
1932: Manners to Books
Digging through an unorganized pile of some of my books, I found one I’d forgotten I had, titled Mr. Manners: A Manual of Good Manners, by Rose Henniker Heaton. It was published in 1932 by Burns Oates & Washbourne, London. The title page continues: “for Good Children, together with AWFUL EXAMPLES of WILD MANNERS and […]
Prelinger Archives
My old iPod mini (in pink, of course) started to go this month, so I splurged and got myself a new iPod – the one that can handle videos. In addition to downloading a few clips from iTunes, I wandered over to the Internet Archive to see if I could download some of the Prelinger […]
A tribute to Frieda
This week, I lost a wonderful friend, my dog of 9 years, Frieda. In the early days of MissAbigail.com, she was the one who would force me to take a break from the computer to take her for a long walk on Capitol Hill, or present me a loud squeak toy to interrupt my typing. […]