Happy Valentine’s Day! My Favourite Literary Couples!
I have read a lot of books and there are definitely some couples that stand out more than others in my literary memory. I’ve scoured through my collection and picked out some of my favourite couples in honor of Valentine’s Day! I can’t write too much about each pairing because I really don’t want to […]
Happy New Year!
New Year’s wasn’t always celebrated at the end of December. In fact, the first recorded celebration of a new year is around four thousand years old when the Babylonians marked their new year on the first new moon after the spring equinox. January 1 became the first day of the new year under Julius Caesar. […]
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone! I know a lot of people will be spending their time with family, I will as well, but I wanted to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season. There are a lot of holidays/festivals this time of year and I’m sure you’ve heard of the big ones (Christmas, Hannukah and Kwanzaa), but there […]
Remembrance Day
I’ll keep this one short. I debated not doing a post at all, sort of a digital day of silence, but I want to acknowledge today. I’m not a fan of violence and war, but I am grateful to those who fight for maintain our way of life and all those who have given their […]
Happy Halloween!
I love Halloween, the brightness and frivolity of the fall season combined with costumes and candy. I’m currently in the process of a Halloween tradition: watching Hocus Pocus. I’ve never been a big fan of horror movies, so Hocus Pocus is one of the only Halloween themed movies I’ll actually watch. It’s really the only […]