• Blog - Prompt

    Daily Prompt: What is your favorite type of weather?

    March 23, 2026 - By 

    The weather outside… …right now it is a chilly 38 degree Fahrenheit, with cloud streaking across the sunrise looking like deep grey strips of cloth hovering over the horizon. I have come to love a beautiful sunrise. They bring hopes for the day. Spring is here. My favorite type of weather is a crisp autumn day, the sky is clear, except for the passing v of fowl heading south, and the sun warms you still with its brilliant yellow hue. The world is welcoming its winters rest soon to come with shades of rusty orange and crimson. The smell of…

  • Blog - Literature - Poet

    Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Victorian Voice and the Man Behind It

    October 13, 2025 - By 

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) is often thought of as the quintessential Victorian poet: solemn, moral, deeply religious (or spiritually conflicted), and a poetic voice enshrined in the nation’s imagination.   But behind that public persona lies a more turbulent, restless, and fascinating inner life — one that has lately received renewed attention from biographers and literary historians. In 2025, Richard Holmes published The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief, which re-casts Tennyson’s early years through the lens of scientific upheaval, existential anxiety, and emotional intensity.  In doing so, Holmes teases out lesser-known details and contradictions that complicate the familiar myth…

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    John Donne: The Metaphysical Master of Love, Death, and Divine Longing

    July 7, 2025 - By 

    For this week’s blog post, I’d thought I’d detour a bit into the art of writing. As a writer, I have an interest in writers and their skills with the written word, including poets of the past, and wanted to incorporate writers and poets into my blog posts. John Donne is one of English literature’s most enigmatic and enduring voices. A poet-priest who explored the extremes of passion and piety, Donne’s work traverses erotic longing, existential dread, and divine transcendence. His legacy rests in his dazzling metaphysical conceits—those unexpected, often startling comparisons that stretch thought and language to their limits.…