A Blog of One's Own

BC:AD - U.A. Fanthorpe This was the moment when Before Turned into After, and the future's Uninvented timekeepers presente...

  Journey of the Magi - TS Eliot A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long jou...

Winter Solstice ~ the day the light comes back.    December 21 - Ted Kooser Perfectly still this solstice morning,  in bone-crac...

      Not the Millennium - UA Fanthorpe   Wise Men are busy being computer literate. There should be a law against confusing Religi...

" The custom (giving Christmas cards) is a most striking one - so long as we have sufficient imagination to remember vividly that ...

  from Christmas - John Betjeman And is it true? and is it true? The most tremendous tale of all, Seen in a stained-glass win...

  This famous 1897 reply to an 8 year old girl from the New York Sun is one of the most famous editorials of all time, as well as a po...

The Coming of Light - Mark Strand Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit...

  The classic Christmas story from Dickens never gets old. "There are many things from which I might have derived good, by whic...