I Spent Today Coming of Age

Filed under:It's My Life — posted by Anwyn on December 13, 2007 @ 10:26 pm

So look out.

Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number and a very respectable age for a hobbit (the Old Took himself had only reached 130); and Frodo was going to be thirty-three, 33, an important number: the date of his ‘coming of age’.

Conversation of the Day

Filed under:Heh,It's My Life — posted by Anwyn @ 12:53 pm

Son, perusing a 1964 book called If You Lived in Colonial Times: “Mama, are you a woman?”

Me: “Yep.”

Son, consulting book: “You may never vote.”



image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace