Wishing us peace on earth, and all the joys of the season …

December 2022

and we’ll meet here again in 2023.
(John Lennon’s Imagine, courtesy Wikimedia.)

Old Christmas Day

It’s been called one of the greatest short stories ever written: James Joyce‘s The Dead, set on The Feast of the Epiphany, opening as Gabriel Conroy and his wife, Gretta,…

Cod Collapse

Jenn Thornhill Verma examines lessons, legacy in Cod Collapse   Where did the inspiration for this book come from? Cod Collapse is about one of the greatest collective traumas in…