Friday, December 26, 2025

Carolynne Estis

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Blessings of monotony

(From our archives, but which may help in these days of isolation. Editor) In the vast collection of literature that has been written throughout the history of mankind, the one thing that all books have...

Immortal Irony

In his short story “The Ambitious Guest,” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses a lot of irony. A lot might actually be an understatement. The story is riddled with irony from the beginning to the rather awful...

Rough Weather

(Below is a column from our archives, which pertains to some of the 'rough weather' tht has been visited upon many people of late. What Carolynne Estis says of Oklahama a few years ago,...

Life is Not a Fairy Tale

When a person gets everything that she wants, when she has all the things that she thinks she needs, and life is being wonderfully kind; when there is nothing terrible hanging over her head...

The Blessings of Monotony

(As we all enter back into our 'ordinary' routines after Chrismas holidays, it is good to reflect upon the blessings of monotony, upon which I myself have been pondering of late, the praise of...

Mud

Most of my family is only at our “home” during the Christmas holidays. Because our time there is short, generally spanning between American Thanksgiving and New Years, my dad likes to plan enormous projects...

Dignity for All

In all the debates that are going on in the world, there is, perhaps, none that are so relative as that which surrounds abortion, and each January brings that argument into the spotlight. Science...

The Power of Thanksgiving

November 28th was Thanksgiving here in the United States. This year Thanksgiving appears to be the least appreciated holiday of the year. For the most part, stores skipped straight from Halloween to Christmas and,...

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