Tag Archives: Edna St. Vincent Millay

TCS: One Little Room an Everywhere – Life in a Plague Year

Posted on April 20, 2020 by

. .Good Morning!     __________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. __________________________________ … Continue reading →

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A Poem for Weed Appreciation Day

Posted on March 28, 2020 by

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was born in Maine, graduated from Vassar College in 1917, and became a well-known poet and playwright, with a strong feminist style. She was the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1923, … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: APPARITION

Posted on October 25, 2019 by

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Samhain or Samhuin (SAH-win or SOW-in – rhymes with cow) was the first day of the new year in the ancient Celtic calendar, the beginning of the “darker half” of the year. Samhain is Irish Gaelic. … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: DARKNESS

Posted on October 11, 2019 by

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The pages of our calendars are flying off like autumn leaves. To the delight of children, we are nearing that annual candy-scavenge in America: Halloween. Our celebrations of the eerie and macabre are pretty bland compared to … Continue reading →

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TCS: Death, Taxes and Poetry

Posted on April 15, 2019 by

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TCS: This Whole Experiment of Green

Posted on April 8, 2019 by

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Word Cloud: ENTHRALL

Posted on October 26, 2018 by

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Witches. In cultures around the world, stories are told of women who have some extraordinary power: the gift of foretelling the future; of casting spells to alter reality; of mysteriously healing the sick; of cursing their … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: February 22, 2018

Posted on February 22, 2018 by

February 22nd is Cook a Sweet Potato Day National Margarita Day Walking the Dog Day World Thinking Day * George Washington’s Birthday ____________________________________________ MORE! Frazier Baker, Willa Chapell and Frank Peterson click

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Word Cloud: WITCH

Posted on October 20, 2017 by

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Witch . . . There’s a long and often tragic history attached to that word. In our enlightened 21st century Western culture, it’s more likely to be used as a somewhat more polite euphemism for that … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: DARKNESS

Posted on October 13, 2017 by

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The pages of our calendars are flying off like autumn leaves. To the delight of children, we are nearing that annual candy-scavenge in America: Halloween. Our celebrations of the eerie and macabre are pretty bland compared to … Continue reading →

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