Tag Archives: winter

Though Not a Christmas Song, This Puts Me in a Holiday Mood

Maybe it’s the jingle bells: I’m adding this song to my iPod holiday music playlist. I think it fits.

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Irony in a Good Poem: Christina Rossetti’s “Dirge”

I like this poem. It’s by Christina Rossetti and was published in an 1896 collection of her poems that I found at an outdoor book stall in London two summers back. Someone near to Rossetti’s heart appears to have died in … Continue reading

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I Got My Swine Flu Shot Today (and Albert Camus Would Have Gotten His Swine Flu Shot Too)

“No man is an island. Each is a part of the main.” This afternoon my wife, my three and five year old daughters, and I all went to the doctor to get our swine flu shots. We got our regular flu … Continue reading

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Destitute Ghetto Inhabitant in Winter, circa 1940

Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive

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Merced Riverbank in Winter, Yosemite (January, 2005)

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