It’s impossible to do justice to Dorothy Sayers … she wrote some of the best mystery novels in the English language, most of which featured Lord Peter Wimsey. She wrote plays, essays, advertising copy, and poetry. She translated Dante’s Divine Comedy in the 1950’s; the translation is still in print.

Becca Worley sighed heaily. “Josephine, I’m in a pickle.”

In a quiet corner of Holland, a Catholic priest underwent a crisis of faith and conscience, which would lead him on a reformer’s path and give his name to an entire movement.

She was well known - perhaps even notorious in her own time. Ask most people today about Katherine Von Bora, however, and you are likely to hear “Katherine Von who?”

Trees are sporting red hats and golden cloaks. Frost is in the air. It’s the season for soup and sweaters, and time to switch from summer to fall books.

I’d successfully avoided it for several years, but on Labor Day, poison ivy caught up with me. As a result, I’ve spent most of this weekend in the house, legs covered in gauze bandages, staring out of the windows. It’s been a thrilling time.

This has been a rough year for gardening. Heat wave upon heat wave has rolled over the county, scorching everything that isn’t regularly watered. But despite the adverse weather and small harvest, I am already beginning to feel the familiar stirring that begins when fall is just around the corner.