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Category Archives: holiday
Memorial Day, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, "A Lament"
A Lament We who are left, how shall we look againHappily on the sun or feel the rainWithout remembering how they who wentUngrudgingly and spentTheir lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain? A bird among the rain-wet lilac … Continue reading
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Today is Star Trek Movie Day!
Mr. Spock (in reruns) was one of my earliest crushes, and the show one of my favorites for many years. Isn’t he yummy? You really need to hear his speaking voice to get the full effect. I might not get … Continue reading
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Happy May Day! And Guest Post Tomorrow.
Stop by tomorrow for my guest, Evangeline Adams of Edwardian Promenade, who posts about writing African-American romance. Happy May Day! “Never had the Maypole been so gayly decked as at sunset on midsummer eve. This venerated emblem was a pine-tree, … Continue reading
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ANZAC Cookies
It is ANZAC Day. These cookies were meant to keep fresh for a long time, to be shipped by boat from Australia and New Zealand to the European front during World War One, but they are also very yummy cookies. … Continue reading
World Frog Day!
Happy World Frog Day! Yes, it really is. You never find World Frog Day-themed romances, though. Despite all those hunky and/or gorgeous herpetologists out there.
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the life of St. Patrick
Sometimes, historical research leaves me seeing novels everywhere. This is what I could find on St. Patrick, who was born in 387 C.E.. Patrick’s birth name was Maewyn Succat and he took the name Patricus when he became a priest. … Continue reading
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it’s the 98th annual international women’s day
Happy International Women’s Day! http://www.internationalwomensday.com/first.asp
Mark Twain on Mardi Gras
“The largest annual event in New Orleans is a something which we arrived too late to sample–the Mardi-Gras festivities. I saw the procession of the Mystic Crew of Comus there, twenty-four years ago–with knights and nobles and so on, clothed … Continue reading
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