Around Mariah's Table

   Sorry for the silence, peeps. My laptop is inoperable at the moment, and it's hard to post from my phone. But today, just for you, I...

New discovery. Wow!  👌

The first poem I'm memorizing by Emily Dickinson. Brilliant. I've memorized it already, even before I nailed Renascence. I'm g...

The last stanza of Renascence, by Edna St, Vincent Millay. I've almost got it nailed. WHAT a piece of literature. God bless my lady Ed...

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of h...

7. How plain does it appear that there is not another condition of life so well suited for philosophizing as this in which thou now happene...

By Annie

Three of my beauties

This poem, to one with a good imagination, can be horrifying to hear. And then heavenly. Awesome (using the word correctly).

"............... - crash! Before the wild wind's whistling lash The startled storm clouds reared on high And plunged in terr...

I live in Heaven. Peter's Stained Glass-looking bench.    The tree is so obviously embracing the house. Like a mother hen...

Yep, trees are people. Gotta love 'em.

There are times like this for me - at Christmas, and times like today when I hear a song I think she would love, but can't share it w...

Heard this playing at the end of a '90s movie I watched last night. Love discovering treasures this way.    Song of the sea. Love ...

I recently went through our video cabinets, getting rid of the ones I didn't want any more, and found several that I had never even see...

“You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works,  if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in...

Old friends over for dinner, to celebrate the New Year! 

Happy New Year!

My maternal grandfather, Edward Kilcrin.  I have a vivid memory of him in about 1971, driving his big, new convertible, with his hair slic...

   It's so delightful, to be left alone the day after Christmas, in our heavily-partied house, with nothing to do but restore order, re...

My beautiful girls.   💖

   It's eleven am, on Christmas Eve. Tonight all our kids and a couple of their friends will be descending on the house for our annual ...

Would you like to swing on a star?

   I'm memorizing Edna St Vincent Millay's 'Renascence'. This is not easy, because sometimes a passage I'm working on w...

This is no fun, and no joke. This is what I'm dealing with right now. It can happen to anyone, though there are factors that contribute...

Where my son Rob works. Sweet, to be surrounded by beauty every day, and especially at Christmas. https://driskillhotel.com

I LOVE this movie, love this song. Louis Prima is without equal.  The other night this song was quoted in a poem read at The Spoken Word...

   Sorry for the silence, Peeps, I've been in the Real World, giving thanks with those I love and working on getting my health under co...

I knew it!  May I never break a tree's heart........ ..... Interesting to come across this as I'm rereading The Silmarillion...

I just finished memorizing this today. I'll practice it for a week, and next Tuesday I'll recite it (tell it as a story) for my poe...

The other day, my next door neighbor for the past 23 years - dear friend and fellow educator - fell down at the grocery store, apparently, ...

                            Our world would be a place of peace                             If we each would now and then lie          ...

                                                 Whatever else is going on,                                                  I keep m...

Sometimes in our house, when it's quiet, if you don't make a sound, you can catch one of these little creatures at work, doing my ...

The music is a little too loud, imho, but his delivery is perfect. This is the way I want to perform the poems I memorize. I memorize them...

Not a man in line looked so fine, Me old mither used to say, As your father did in his old-time lid Upon St. Patty's Day.       Ge...

Can't beat Gene Kelly!

Last day at Dad's

Is it strange for me to think..... Is it odd for me to say...... If I moved on to Dickinson, I'd be cheating on Millay?

Praying for Lebanon, my husband's home country and where much of his family is. God grant them peace, democracy, and religious freedom....

Miss that baby..... 💖

"You're getting' to be a habit with me...."                                     As a love story, so simple, and ye...