Post Views: 895 Do any of you find it fascinating, as I do, that many of the christmas traditions we know and love often cross that thin veil that separates […]
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Post Views: 1,525 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 […]
Thomas Nast father of a Civil War Santa
Post Views: 1,717 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: 2,871 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: 3,188 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
1 Post Views: 5,512 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: 2,976 I had the distinct displeasure of sitting within listening distance of a family at dinner tonight. My ears were assailed with the most incredulous conversation regarding tattoos […]
Mother of all tattoo myths
Post Views: 2,289 This year’s celebrations are truly filled with a great many “firsts” for me. With this in mind I wanted to list them out and note my gratitude […]
Gratitude 2015
Post Views: 2,329 I have empty nestlings. It has really been a long time since I have written anything and I must confess that writing something that does not involve the […]
Empty Nestlings
Post Views: 5,157 Modern Santa Claus is known to be an amalgam of influences, not the least of which is the Germanic god Odin. It is important to realize that there […]
Mōdraniht – Mothers Night
Post Views: 2,563 I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago, And left no trace but the cellar walls, And a cellar in which […]
Lonely House, a Ghost House Poem
Post Views: 2,632 Do you hear the winds howling? Is that a harvest blood moon rising in the dark night sky? That’s right friends it is THAT time […]