Day: December 1, 2023

Culture, History, Life, Literature

Come, Come Thou Bleak December Wind (from Coleridge, Fragment 3)

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December 1, 2023 is the anniversary of a great many consequential events: 68 years since seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus; 888 years since England’s King Henry I died after eating a “surfeit of lampreys” (anyone who’s ever actually seen (or thought about) a lamprey may find… Continue reading Come, Come Thou Bleak December Wind (from Coleridge, Fragment 3)

Culture, History, Life

“I Disobey The Government!”

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Almost seven years ago, I wrote a post on Ricochet titled The Other Woman.  It told the story of a tiny, feisty nun, a Sister of Charity who–I believe–eclipsed, and had more influence upon the late Mr. Right than almost all other women in my late husband’s life (this includes me, his wife of almost… Continue reading “I Disobey The Government!”