I’m a Magpie
Actually, I’m rather enjoying the rain. But, gah! has it rained a lot the past few days, that chill-bone, tree-stripping rain particular to November. Today was just so chilly and wet, which made the poem we read for Keats class seem as if it were written for an entirely different season (and to be fair, [...]
There’s a ring around the moon tonight, which always makes me a bit morbid and over-dramatic. I blame childhood exposure to poetry. It seeps into your bones at that age.
“WRECK OF THE HESPERUS” By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
It was the schooner Hesperus, [...]
So I just found out about Poetry Thursday over at be present, be here, and decided that, it being Thursday, and poetry being on my mind, hey! I might as well join in.
This is a poem I just recently found online over at Blackbird. It’s by Brian Teare, who just happens to be one of [...]
Augustine, in the course of hisjourney towards God, had a bit of a hard time. Not the least of these was love – or more accurately, the difficulty of learning to love properly.
“I cared for nothing but to love and be loved,” he writes, “But my love went beyond the affection of one mind for [...]
I'm a librarian. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset's reflection in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and live on a boat in Sausalito, CA.