Reposted from February 2014 In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, a work of which I am an ardent fan, Elizabeth Bennett wonders who first discovered the efficacy of destroying affection with verse. She declares that poetry must indeed kill love. In surprise, the oft maligned hero Fitzwilliam Darcy replies, “I have been used to consider poetry as […]
Valentine’s Day
A Special Valentine’s Day Gift
Results of a recent survey show that sales of Valentine’s Day sentiments, chocolate, and flowers are down. The average spent used to be $160, but according to the survey revenue has dropped almost 75%. Hmmm. I have no way of checking those statistics and because this news made for a lead story in a television […]
Happy? Valentine’s Day
Reposted from an earlier entry February 2015– Today, while waiting at an intersection near the university where I live, I studied the faces of the people in the crosswalk. A handful jogged by on their way to the popular running path our city boasts. Others were students, backpacks in place, hurrying to their next class. One […]