From my favorite winter/Christmas story of all time, A Child's Christmas in Wales , by Dylan Thomas, which should speak for itself: ......

Do you remember the American poet Phyllis McGinley?  No less a poet than W. H. Auden wrote a foreword to her collected poems.  She's go...

And so we are forced to be again today -- "stayers-at-home."  The snow outside our door and up our walk and stairs took a grown ma...

The lovely poem"The Snowman" by Wallace Stevens contributed by KW below, I'm inspired to suggest two more poems appropriate, ...

Having ventured out at last to fetch home a loaf of bread & other eatables, I'm now in for good.  So with my ham sandwich and hot co...

Getting to the bookstore today may prove impossible.  Getting out of the house at all might not be such a good idea just now.  So this would...

The world of Charles Dickens, in the popular imagination of our day, is little more than a Victorian Christmas card; plump ladies in funny ...