Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Anti-Santas

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Nowadays almost everybody has heard of Krampus, the goatlike humanoid creature from central Europe who accompanies Saint Nicholas to punish ...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Karen S. Wiesner {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: "The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge" by Charlie Lovett

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: "The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge" by Charlie Lovett by Karen S. Wies...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Beware Ignorance and Want by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Beware Ignorance and Want by Karen S. Wiesner     From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens:  They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagr...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Old-Fashioned Holidays

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Having recently discovered we own a copy of Washington Irving's SKETCH BOOK, published around 1820 (one of the books we inherited from m...
Friday, December 22, 2023

The Practice of Benevolence {A Reflection on Dickens' A Christmas Carol} by Karen S. Wiesner

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The Practice of Benevolence {A Reflection on Dickens' A Christmas Carol } by Karen S. Wiesner One of my all-time favorite storie...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Thanksgiving and Traditions

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Happy American Thanksgiving! Ordinarily we spend the weekend after Turkey Day at ChessieCon, formerly Darkover Grand Council, which has trad...
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Scary Solstice

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I recently read a lavishly illustrated book about midwinter folklore, THE FRIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by Jeff Belanger, featuring Krampus, the ...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

A World Without Christmas

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The Hallmark channel has already begun its annual Countdown to Christmas movie marathon. For us (Episcopalians) the season runs from the fir...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

Commercialized Holidays

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Recently I saw a Facebook post lamenting the materialistic nature of the Christmas season nowadays. The holidays focus too much on buying an...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Anti-Santas

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You've probably heard of Krampus, the horned, hairy, bipedal monster from Austrian legend who prowls in December, mainly on Saint Nichol...
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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Xmas Musings

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I've just read a recent book about Dorothy Sayers, SUBVERSIVE, by Crystal Downing. One theme to which the author frequently alludes is t...