The Shortest Day

“Forgetting the wrongs, with carols and songs…To drive the cold winter away…” After our parents passed, my sister and I decided to come up with new holiday season traditions. We started going to Newport RI to visit the mansions in their festive splendor, drink mead at midwinter bonfires and visit Winter Lights at various historicContinue reading “The Shortest Day”

“You will be haunted,” resumed the Ghost, “by three spirits… “

I marked the Winter Solstice this past week, flanked by the Geminid and Ursid meteor showers. I have spent several frigid nights bundled up watching a clear, cold winter sky full of stars for those restless, errant ones streaking across the black. I was not disappointed, though on these magical winter nights of blue, silver,Continue reading ““You will be haunted,” resumed the Ghost, “by three spirits… “”