Gladsome Lights

This blog has moved to my new WordPress account here:  www.gretchenjoanna.com . You may have ended up on the old site because I tried to com...

Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull...

As I mentioned in my last post, we took a short trip down to California's Central Coast - which we were amused to hear referred to as Th...

A short verse stuck in my mind over 20 years ago, and has been playing there off and on out of a proper context. I'm pretty sure it came...

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defea...

The End of Sleep The eyes are about to open. Through fog, Sleep crosses the great water— See how it sails in the little boat? Slowl...

Another good quote for Lent, thanks to s-p at Pithless Thoughts (posted a while back), from a Malcolm Muggeridge essay on life at the end o...