Steven D Greydanus on the subervise non-subversiveness of Phineas and Ferb
On the website of the ever-interesting Steven D Greydanus there is a piece on Phineas and Ferb, one of the many many children’s shows which are also calculated to appeal…
Category: the world of childhood
“Alone”, Edgar Allan Poe – read by Basil Rathbone
“Alone” By Edgar Allan Poe From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring—…
Review of “Homesickness: An American History” by Susan Matt, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2012
This is a wonderful book I heartily recommend, indeed re-reading the review I hope the warmth of my recommendation is clear. The balance Susan Mat strikes between mastery of the…
Poem: Magheragallon
A while back I posted a link to Non-Binary Review’s call for submissions for pieces inspired directly by Dante’s Inferno. Unfortunately (or not) my own efforts in this line were…
Fighting Talk
The power drips from the open wounds. The big guns lie silent, resting for the next time. The phantom stalks the air, peering Into the muzzles, bathing in their Dominion,…
Nan Shepherd on going barehanded and barefooted
From “The Living Mountain”: The hands have an infinity of pleasure in them. When I was a girl, a charming old gentlewoman said something to me that I have…
“This is the avocado game”
(edit 17th May – welcome to my page, those who have wandered here to read about the avocado game go right ahead…. and perhaps you may be interested in my …
The Go Betweens : Cattle and Cane
Originally posted on The Immortal Jukebox:
What are we made of? Well, you could say we are mainly Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Calcium and Phosphorous. Add some pinches of Potassium,…
