no mourners, no funerals

I almost forgot about this blog for a little while. Hello to the faithful few who still read it 🙂 I'm on spring break for a brief couple more days, and then it's back to the crazy busy wonderful thing that is college daily life. I'm honestly quite stressed and worried about the remainder of…

Unsong book covers!

Hello friends! A few months ago I discovered a delightfully nerdy and complex book called Unsong, which you can read for free online here. It imagines that Apollo 8 crashed into the celestial spheres and the world reverted to kabbalistic magic, which is as weird and wonderful as it sounds, and I really enjoyed reading…

sunshine blogger tag

Well met, fair friends, and welcome to the woods. I have not been tagged to do this tag, but it's the best way to not do Greek homework right now, and Grim offered it to anyone who wanted it. So here we go. Do you listen to podcasts, and if so what’s your favorite? I…

on the seventh day of Christmas

It's been a tradition to share my goals and plans for the new year on this blog for a couple years, so here I am to do that again. I'm currently working out exactly what relationship I want to have with sharing my life on my blog -- when I turned sixteen and was allowed…

adventures in small town college living

school. reading copious paragraphs of Cicero every day; every day it becomes a little easier failing to properly memorize Greek verbs ("oh, doesn't that mean kill?" "no, actually just go") arguing about Hamlet on the quad with friends leading a discussion -- enjoying myself despite my lack of preparedness "virtus does NOT mean strength" (as…

flotsam & jetsam | July 2022

I haven't written this sort of post for a long time, but I miss them. So here is a little collection of random thoughts. I finished rereading the Narnia books recently. Then I tried to rank them. It's very difficult but my list would probably look something like this: The Horse and His BoyThe Silver…

carpe aeternitatem

I've been thinking a lot, lately, about life and death and what it means to be mortal. live the life that unfolds before you. love goodness more than you fear evil. ~ Jonathan Rogers It's not a new thing for me to be thinking about. I read The Bark of the Bog Owl when I…

the “I’ll get around to it later” tag

... which I will not, in fact, get around to later, because I am doing it now! Thanks to Liesl for tagging me. (Before we get into this post, just a quick announcement that I meant to participate in Grim's "Remember, O Thou Man" but found myself out of time to do so... I may…

end-of-year things

Hello. I don't know if I'm back for real, or only for a little, or if this is my last post ever (hopefully not). I *do* know that, while I like a lot of things on Instagram, I miss writing random posts for this blog and I want to do it more. How have you…

Cathedral book launch!

Hello, friends. I hope some of you are still here -- this blog has been sadly neglected lately. I miss it, but I am enjoying living on my beautiful college campus, and (of course) there are always essays to be written and tests to study for. I'm just popping in to let you know that…