Archive for May, 2011
Crazy
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011Well, if you can read this, you too have not been raptured. Turns out, nobody has. Or at least, no one whom anybody has noticed is gone missing. Which you have to grant would be discouraging even in absentia. To some, this threatened doomsday of May 21 might be old news. But I’m still thinking it’s [...]
Mother Jesus and Dame Julian
Friday, May 13th, 2011For people who think on such things, May 13th marks the day of medieval mystic Julian of Norwich. I learned about her in my college English class. (I like to say that at St. Olaf College, I got a major in English and an unmarketable minor in medieval women mystics. Hmm. I don’t know how [...]
Corinthian Juleps
Thursday, May 5th, 2011Ten-year old (ostensibly) Virginia Cary Hudson wrote O Ye Jigs & Juleps! in 1904. It cracks me up. She wrote it while at an Episcopalian boarding school, and as the above-linked Time article says, it had been undiscovered in a trunk for many years. Once found, it was published in 1960 and has been giving people [...]
