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Address to My Blog Readers About Our Two Successful Burns Suppers

My dear Life Literary Reader On lofty precipice I now teeter As I attempt the noble meter Of “To a Mouse,” To tell you ’bout our two Burns Feeders I am no louse. The first, we held in highland far … Continue reading

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Taking Leeks

I harvested the final 2011-planted garden crop on the first weekend of February, 2012.  Even without a homestead of our own, without a root cellar where I would store the potatoes, carrots, squash and turnips I would have grown to sustain us during the … Continue reading

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Robert Burns Days are Here Again

Just when you were missing the holiday season, here is a great excuse for a party.  If you’re looking for a reason to invite people over for good food and good fun, you’ll find one in these weeks around January 25, the … Continue reading

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Literary Events

In my experience, a literary event or party surprises everyone who attends.  Who expects a meal where people read poems or sing songs to be anything great?  What amazes me, and what I enjoy watching, is how the guests at … Continue reading

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A Good Time Was Had By All

Here’s a note we got from my wife’s cousin and her husband.  They conducted their first annual Burns Supper last weekend. Well, Gary and Anita, we did it. We had our Burns Supper this evening and it was fantastic. Everyone … Continue reading

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My Cardinal (the bird) Moment

Since childhood I have marveled that male birds are so colorful and bright but the females are typically plain, even dull.  Take cardinals, for example.  While growing up (and even now), glimpses of that bright red bird thrilled me.  I … Continue reading

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Of A’ The Airts

Robert Burns Of a’ the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west, For there the bonie lassie lives, The lassie I lo’e best: There’s wild-woods grow, and rivers row, And mony a hill between: But day and … Continue reading

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Response to a NYT Editorial about Robert Burns (150 word version)

(I wrote the first version before finding out that the NYT has a 150 word limit on letters to the editor.  Here’s the edited version, less than half the length than the first.) NYT Robert Burns Editorial To the Editor: … Continue reading

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Response to a NYT Editorial about Robert Burns (first version)

NYT Robert Burns Editorial I will agree it’s fun to give haggis a little kick in the hurdies* from time to time.  A sausage made from chopped and cooked sheep’s lung, kidney and heart (with onions, salt, pepper, suet and … Continue reading

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In the moment/ In the aftermath

One of the nicest things about a Literary Event (LE) is the aftermath.  I love the sense of satisfaction after completing a big project.  When you’ve got a group of people (humans have this tendency to do whatever they feel like … Continue reading

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