Well, here we are at the end of April 2012's A-Z blogging challenge.  Last year's final post, Z is for Zoomorphic Angels , is my s...

It's always fun when your readers are interested in something you are interested in, and perhaps even more fun when it's a reade...

Posting unexpectedly from out-of-town. It helps one discover how much one hates the iPhone blogger app. Yinyang, or yin and yang as we ten...

Xenopus laevis .  A biologist immediately knows the importance of that name, but perhaps many mythopoets do not, as I did not.  However, o...

Tarantulla Nebula from the Hubble Spacescope, Courtesy of NASA. One of the basic human responses is wonder.  It's an inner state, ...

Just checking to see if everybody is awake!  The W   entry will be coming later, but I wanted to share that I am enjoying finally getting a...

  is for VERISIMILITUDE I have said before that I believe Tolkien's  "On Fairy-Stories" (1947) is one of the m...

Due to losing some family storage, I've recently had to go through a lot of old things (see my Nostalgia post).  I came across the re...

"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tire...

Regular ramblers know that, in spite of being an old fogy who never got into any of these new-fangled card games, I am still fascinated by ...

The images of Zeno of Citium and Confucius provide two strongly contrasting images of the sage from two classical societies that valued the ...

Defoe's 1719 novel, an early example of the English novel, entered my imagination at a young age thanks to my mother's provision of ...

There have been a number of comments and additions to the roster of Ramblers lately that I have not been as quick to acknowledge as usual. ...

Hsi Wang-mu or Xi Wangmu is a Chinese goddess of death, immortality, and the Western Paradise.  She is described in the HarperCollins Dict...

This post is my second meditation on the paladin.  For last year's, see here . "Don't deny your rowdy nature, paladin.  And ...