Post Views: 140 If Clement Clark Moore is primarily responsible for our literary description of Santa Claus with his poem T’was The Night Before Christmas. Thomas Nast is responsible for […]
Seasonal
Post Views: 247 Regular readers of my blog will know that I love the Halloween season. I also love bonfires. I always strive to find some odd fact every year […]
Bonfires are Bone Fires at Halloween
Post Views: 908 My thoughts on new year’s resolutions for the 2019/2020 new year, new decade all revolve around the idea of Karma, positivity and the realization that once you let […]
New Year 2020 new Decade
Post Views: 1,307 Traditional Christmas characters here in the United States are typically friendly. Think of the many incarnations of St. Nicholas. Iceland on the other hand is home to […]
Yule Cat Jólakötturin
Post Views: 1,118 As far back as I can remember my mother had always helped us decorate for the xmas holiday by taping up brightly colored art prints known as […]
Die Cut Decorations for Christmas
Post Views: 1,287 I love to dig deeply into holiday and secular traditions. Learning new things is what give life its spice. Speaking of spice I ran across a fantastic […]
Barmbrack, an Irish Halloween tradition
Post Views: 1,377 All through the year I collect funny images and Halloween cartoons about Halloween. Every year I post the ones I liked best. It has become kind of […]
Halloween Cartoons 2019
1 Post Views: 1,643 As a child growing up in the 1980’s, I was never shielded from the rampant consumerism this decade is well known for. The xmas holidays always conjure the […]
Hills is where the toys were
Post Views: 1,809 Yule is the original Norse-Germanic Pagan festival that marks todays Winter Solstice before it was replaced by the christian version of ‘christmas”. The lyric from “Deck the […]
Yule Never Believe this..because you were taught
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Halloween Cartoons 2018
1 Post Views: 2,720 I like to explore the cultural connections between the holiday of Halloween and people that invented it. One of the more interesting legends I have run across […]
The Cutty Black Sow, a Gaelic Legend
Post Views: 2,750 Halloween always makes us think of the darkest, dankest, ritualistic parts of ourselves. Writers often use the holiday as inspiration for their works. King, Bradbury, Le Fanu […]