I have never shoveled so much snow in my entire life as I did this past Wednesday.  The storm had started the night before and seemed to have stopped by the next morning…I stayed home anyway, because the roads just looked terrible and I could log on from home and get some work done, and [...]

Er…not really.
“The Hooded Congregation” is a Swedish story included in The Time Life Enchanted World: Ghosts collection. Other than The Little Match Girl, it is probably one of the most distressing holiday stories I have ever read. I suspect the tale was originally found in Swedish Legends and Folklore, by John Lindow - as that [...]

I have developed a bit of an obsession over the past year or so, with Victorian mourning jewelry.  According to Morbid Outlook,
“Today the word “Victorian” refers to a certain highly ornate style of architecture, furnishings, and fashion. It is a style that most people of the Gothic persuasion look at with romantic longing. The 19th [...]

Time for baking spiced pumpkin bread…

Time for ghost stories…

Time for warm, soft cashmere sweaters (vintage sweater from Violet Folklore…it arrived yesterday and it is GORGEOUS)…

Time for quiet, contemplative leaf strewn evening walks .  I don’t walk past anything quite like this though! Still, it is a lovely, recent find, and I can’t stop [...]

Last week The Man brought roses home to me, the most intensely beautiful shade of red-orange (or orange red); I neglected to photograph the flowers and by the time I had enough get-up-and-go to do so, they had already begun to fade and wilt. I would like to issue a formal apology to [...]