Haydn Crowe
Dana Rail
Sydney Wren
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An Oxford Spring (April 18 – May 17, 2024)
From April 18 to May 17, 2024, I will be posting from the City of Dreaming Spires, Oxford, UK. Friends have asked my husband and me, why Oxford? Why a whole month in one smallish E ...
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Quick Take: Stephen King’s FAIRY TALE
I was a teenager when I first read Stephen King. The book was Salem’s Lot and the damn thing scared me so badly I didn’t pick up King agai ...
ANDOR, Random Thoughts: Politics and Character Arcs
War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means. ON WAR, by General Carl von Clausewitz To be honest, Disney's Star Wa ...
Wrestling with the Fallen Angel: Midnight Mass as Catholic Horror
Two men—a priest and a recovering alcoholic— sit in a church rec center on folding chairs discussing the nature of God and the paradox of evil. It cou ...
Malcolm Guite’s Grail Quest Ballad Cycle
I was only last year introduced to the books, blog, and “A Spell in the Library” YouTube Channel of Anglican Priest, Poet, and Inklings ex ...
“My cause of death today is Beauty”: Mr. Sunshine
“Yesterday seemed like a distant past, today felt unfamiliar and tomorrow was terrifying. It was a time of turbulence. All of us, each in their own wa ...
In Defense of Woundedness, of Failure, and of Frodo: A Personal Reflection with Tolkien’s Letters
[ALERT: If you are not familiar with the end of The Lord of the Rings, do not continue…] I originally published this post on my now-too-Dickensian sit ...
Re-reading “Foucault’s Pendulum” in the Age of Q-Anon: Pt. 2 – Ur-Fascism and the Russia-Ukraine Connection
Apologies, but work on my little blog series on Re-reading Foucault’s Pendulum in the Age of QAnon has been delayed by a family emergency and the all- ...