“...And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing/ Under an arch of the railway:’Love has no ending!/I’ll love you dear, I’ll love you/Till China and Africa meet-/Till the river jumps over the mountains/And the salmon sing in the street!/I’ll love you till the ocean is folded and hung up to dry/And the … Continue reading Lines for the February Thaw →

“With you a part of me hath passed away/ For in the peopled forest of my mind/ A tree made lifeless by this wintry wind/Shall never don again its green array./Chapel and fireside, country road and bay/ Have something of their friendliness resigned, / Another, if I would, I could not find, /And I am … Continue reading In Memoriam →

This redoubt in Les Andelys, France, was built by Richard the Lionheart during the endless wars with France. It has a truly impregnable location, perched above the Seine River on a high peak,mover looking the (delightful) little town. So over 3-4 centuries as France and England warred and squabbled and their respective fortunes rose and … Continue reading Château Gaillard, C’est Nous! →

Have you ever read Hardy’s novel.The Mayor of Casterbridge? If not—nota bene ! I’m not suggesting it, at least not if you’re a woman. I finally read it a few years ago iout of a sense of...idk, duty? Because I had read a lot of Hardy’s poetry, and thought the prose must be worth it..? … Continue reading The Mayors of Out-Casterbridge →

Unleashed is the only site I’ve so far been exposed to where the denizens have any fellow feeling and concern for each other. I have been abruptly and painfully excluded from two sites, and had another peremptorily terminated. And THEN, I have seen the founders of successor sites, some of them also former refugees, turn … Continue reading Don’t Ever Change! →

I ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Donald Trump! Usually Presidents’ Day is just a pain in the butt when I realize that everybody has Monday off and it might conflict with my Valentine Party plans. But not this year! Lo, our great president has come through, AGAIN! Acquitted forever AND forever! oh and too, too, glorious: the sanctimonious Lincoln … Continue reading Presidents’ Day: this time it’s personal! →

”Love is not all. It is not meat nor drink/ Nor slumber, nor a roof against the rain,/Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink/And rise and sink and rise and sink again./ Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath/Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone,/ Yet many a man is … Continue reading A Sonnet for Valentine’s Day/ By Edna St. Vincent Millay! →

ENOUGH of our border patrol agents having to plunge into the Rio Grande to rescue the soggy spawn of the Spanish Conquistadors. Nor do I ever want to hear “Oprima la numero dos” again. Why do we have to pretend that these migrant caravans are anything other thsn foot soldiers of a Reconquest? England fought … Continue reading Spain in the Ass! →

...wrote Tennyson, and was he right! We are now, all of us, about to be offered up as human sacrifices to the Great Goddess Gaia. It is only fitting, we’ve HURT her so, our planetary Mommie Dearest! We dared to want to be warm, so we built fires that burnt trees and polluted her air—and … Continue reading “Nature Red in Tooth and Claw” →

Okay: we have a semi-demented puppet, Joseph “Marionette” Biden, scrawling his name on a record number of Imperial Decrees of increasing fatuity and outright absurdity. He is translating the rabid left’s slightest whim into executive order granite. Case in point: and EO yesterday forbidding anyone in his “government” from referring to the current overblown plague … Continue reading We Have to Get Off our Back Foot! →