This is the time of year to sit in front of a warm fire and knit. Knitting is a passion that occasionally overtakes me, so I trot down to the store to pick up yarns in beautiful colors, just to see what sort of patterns and textures I can knit with them. The Irish cable […]
[…] February; the month of despair, with a skewed heart in the center.[…] Margaret Atwood yes, February does seem like the bleakest month of the year. The feeling arises every time you see another snowfall. So help me, if I have to shovel that driveway out one more time… You may complete the sentence any […]
That first flush of dashing out into the snow to play at sports has left us — chilled. Now, what you see, when you look outside, is snow piled high over endless, ever lengthening sidewalks to shovel, as well as having to travel to and from work over roads replete with black ice, slush and […]
Christmas has come and gone. Even Women’s Little Christmas has gone by, and we are left with the shards of the resolutions we made for New Year. Some of these lie broken at our feet, and others have already blown away in the wind. Our intentions had been bright and shiny when we made those […]
Christmas is celebrated almost universally, even among people who do not consider themselves to be Christians. It’s appeal cannot be ignored, especially in today’s world, where any excuse at all to send shoppers off to the malls in orgies of buying is played to the hilt, by our corporate media. In truth, we all need […]
Letter to the London Times from an Irish Immigrant in America, 1850 I am exceedingly well pleased at coming to this land of plenty. On arrival I purchased 120 acres of land at $5 an acre. You must bear in mind that I have purchased the land out, and it is to me and mine […]
Our guest post today is written by Genevieve Fosa. We hear them and let them slide in-one-ear and out-the-other, without paying much attention to them. Or, we may actively try not to hear them, especially when we are feeling down, and the person repeating them to us is trying to get us to snap-out-of it, […]
