
Best Books of the Year (Reading Challenge Summary)
By Polly Castor on December 22, 2025Read moreI read 68 books this year, ten of which were art and cookbooks, 13 were other non-fiction, and the...
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Advent Darkness (quote by Fleming Rutledge)
By Polly Castor on December 21, 2025Read moreAdvent bids us to take a fearless inventory of the darkness: the darkness without and the darkness within.

Advent Visitation (Poem by Lucy Shaw)
By Polly Castor on December 20, 2025Read moreThese still December mornings I fancy I live in a clear envelope of angels like a cellophane womb. Or a...

What Comes Next (Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
By Polly Castor on December 19, 2025Read moreLove relentlessly, she said, and I want to slip these two words into every cell in my body, not the...

Crispy Black Bean Tacos (Recipe)
By Polly Castor on December 18, 2025Read moreThese are delicious and easy to make. It makes tacos enough for four people, and since we are only...

Nice Board Book Gift Idea
By Polly Castor on December 17, 2025Read moreThese are delightful in every way, with wonderful art and rhyme, as well as peek-a-boo holes to see through...
