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Remember, O Thou Man

Remember, O Thou Man Week 4: Why Solzhenitsyn is in My Top 3 Historical Figures, feat. more ‘Four Last Things’ than some might be able to stomach

Tallyhi friends! How are you on this fine Monday to end all Mondays? *waits for response* Oh it’s not Monday when you’re reading this? I wish I could time travel. I’m a pretty patient person, especially with spreadsheets, so let me tell you I don’t say lightly that we are all sort of losing our […]

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Remember, O Thou Man

Remember, O Thou Man Week Two: I swear this discussion of Hadestown is Really Quite Relevant

IT IS REALLY QUITE RELEVANT. If I were a character in Greek mythology, I would swear on the River Styx. Just…read it. And then I dare you to tell me it’s not applicable. Also hi. How are you, my friend? Are you taking care of yourself? Just because life is busy and it’s Lent doesn’t […]

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Writing

An Unromantic’s Attempt to Write Romance–Roasting and Ranking (most) All of the Couples I’ve written

Hullo friends! So last year a post landed on Valentine’s day; I wrote about some of my favorite fictional romantic couples, from the perspective of a non-romantic (which is what I am). Somehow, it’s my most viewed post of all time. 😐 So apparently you people enjoy when I torture myself (and you) with discussion […]

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Remember, O Thou Man

Announcing Remember, O Thou Man 2023 (+ a few other things)

How is it already almost Lent again. Ahem. I assume a lot of you know the drill already, but in case you don’t, allow me to explain. And elaborate. And bring out new graphics. And ramble about some unrelated stuff. Tallyho! Lent is a Formidably Neat Thing So Lent, of course, is the period of […]

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I Hath Been Tagged–the Sunshine Blogger Award

Tallyhi friends! This coming to you from my living room, on a very cold day, with impending winter storm outside, and (appropriately) the snowed-in episode of Alive From Whispering Pines running in the background. I have coffee and my comfy hoody and I am ready to answer some entertaining tag questions, courtesy of my dear […]

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Literary

Farewell to the Liturgical Season of Christmas–macabre Victorian style

Okay, I am well aware that this post may have been far more apropos earlier on. But I didn’t think of it till now and I didn’t want to wait another year to do it because I really want to share these with you guys. But also Christmas is not quite over, liturgically speaking (it […]

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It’s Been A Year–Goodbye 2022, feat. some laughing over music and musing over life

Hullo hullo my friends! I hope you’re well! In important news (that you already know), it is now 2023. Like. How. Just what. *shakes self* Anyhow. I thought it’d be fun to do a bit of a wrap-up, of varying topics. Most notably music and generally life things. Tallyho! Music of the Year–Feat. Disclaimers That […]

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folk music Literary

Liturgical Season Vs. Seasons in General–feat. a handful of folk songs, some rambling about Ember Days, and a rant about the secular perception of Christmas

Okay, this is gonna be what the kids might call a ‘smol’ post, guys. Because I simply don’t have time for more. But I really wanted to talk about this. So here I am talking about it. Um…that’s the intro. Tallyho. Disclaimer: a lot of this will be kinda meaningless to my non-Northern Hemisphere friends, […]

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Literary

Some Advent Meditations–as sketched out by the hand of the Artist in those surrounding me

Hey friends! I’m sorry I was absent this week. It was more or less intentional. I’ve been working really hard, and socializing really hard (cuz holidays), and I’ve been kinda sick on top of it, so I decided to let blogging go in order to catch up on writing posts in a leisurely fashion, and […]

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folk music

A Bit of a Ramble on Folk Burials + other folk/Catholic myth thingummies (because Death = Hallowe’en…? Kinda?)

Hello friends! Yes, I’m aware I inexplicably did not post last week. DON’T JUDGE ME. I was…busy. If you’re noticing a pattern as far as the weeks I tend to accidentally miss always being folk weeks…it’s ’cause it takes absolutely forever to write a folk song post. I have most of the songs I use […]