the smashing & dashing character awards, 2022

Hello and welcome again to the woods! Ahem. Well, welcome to my blog, anyway. As you may have noticed, the name at the top of the page changed, but the url didn't, because some unknown fellow Chesterton fan possesses the url "gailyinthedark.wordpress.com" already. (If you don't know what gaily in the dark means, go read…

the mid-year book freak-out tag :)

Well met, travelers, and welcome to the woods, where your [aspirationally] gracious hostess is nearly always absent and there is no uniformity of theme or style to her posts. How have you all been? Last time, I posted a long ramble about death and academia. Today I'm here to tell you about the books I've…