Category Archives: holiday

Blog Vacation!

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Victoria Janssen

I’m having a blog vacation this week. See you on April 9th! A few recent links to keep you company: Preview of Lady Drusilla’s Road to Ruin by Christine Merrill. Preview of A Tryst With Trouble by Alyssa Everett. Preview … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year! It’s 1912, right?

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Victoria Janssen

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Peace

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

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Holiday Gifts Query

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

Do you purchase gifts for the various winter holidays? In particular, do you purchase items online and have them shipped? I’m asking because I don’t live near most of my family. I was once very adept at choosing things that … Continue reading →

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An Annual Tradition

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

My chief hobby is choral singing, which for me goes along with listening to music. Lots of music. Frequently. Most Decembers, I get the urge to listen to Christmas music (generally sacred, not secular). It’s usually something completely different from … Continue reading →

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“Requiescant,” Frederick George Scott

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

Requiescant In lonely watches night by night Great visions burst upon my sight, For down the stretches of the sky The hosts of dead go marching by. Strange ghostly banners o’er them float, Strange bugles sound an awful note, And … Continue reading →

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Happy Halloween from 1914

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

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“The Dead,” Rupert Brooke

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

The Dead I Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet … Continue reading →

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Centenary of International Women’s Day

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

Today you can check out my post on “a romance for the ages, Kermit and Miss Piggy” over at Heroes and Heartbreakers. 2011 is the centenary of International Women’s Day! Joyce Stevens’ history of IWD in words and images. A … Continue reading →

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Jane Kenyon, “Year Day”

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

I have a Valentine’s playlist up today at the new Heroes and Heartbreakers here. # Year Day We are living together on the earth. The clock’s heart beats in its wooden chest. The cats follow the sun through the house. … Continue reading →

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