Corbid Ravenous

Hope your respective Christmases were happy, or at least failed to suck too terribly…

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Happy Boxing Day!!! Our Christmas was rather low key, but nice. Spent it with my husband’s family mostly, and were fed and gifted well. Needless to say, all day my girls bounced off the walls in manic rapturous joy. In fine Day After Christmas tradition,Chaos does ensue. There are toys scattered to the four winds, … Read more

King Wenceslas

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From Royaltu.NU: “Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even. Brightly shone the moon that night, though the frost was cruel, When a poor man came in sight, gathering winter fuel.” You’re probably familiar with this old Christmas carol. But did you … Read more

It’s Christmas Eve…

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And the girls are very excited. For the rest of us, it’s really sort of anticlimactic, I guess. The whole holiday season has been way too short this year. Anyway, Merry Christmas to all and Happy Belated Solstice and Happy Hannukah if anyone ever reads this who celebrates Hannukah.

Mythic Historical Figure of the Day: Maud Gonne

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Maud Gonne: Yeats’ Cathleen N� Houlihan, Ireland’s Joan of Arc: How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face. — From “When You Are Old,” William Butler Yeats Born during … Read more