See the marketplace in old Algiers,

Send me blogwatches and souvenirs,

Just remember, when a dream appears,

You belong to me…

Making Light: Fascinating excerpts from a crisply-written, vivid memoir of a woman’s life from 1831 to the turn of the century in Wheeling.

And two sharply contrasting views of the “If you want your family released, turn yourself in” story, here and here.