Literature

Etymology

• As Mad as a Hatter
• Grose‘s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Literature

• Literature of the Roaring Twenties
  
• Alice Liddell
• Ancient World Reading List
• Common Sense
• Five principles of good writing according to George Orwell
• Lost Generation
• Samuel Johnson’s “A Dictionary of the English Language”
• Southern Literature
• Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2020
• Most Nobel Prize for Literature Winners
• Paddington Bear
• Seven Important Post-1900 Jewish Novels
• Upper & Lower Case Letters

Ancient Languages

• An Introduction To Egyptian Hieroglyphs – Ancient Egypt
• Hieroglyphics and Cartouches Simplified – Ancient Egypt
• The Rosetta Stone – Ancient Egypt
• The Younger Futhark – Vikings
• Viking Runes Introduction – Vikings
• Björketorp Runestone – Vikings

Ancient Literature

• Homer’s Odyssey Extract – Ancient Greece
• List of deaths in the Illiad – Ancient Greece

Ancient Greek Drama

• Aeschylus (c.525 – 456 B.C.)
• Aristophanes (c. 448-385 B.C.)

Poetry Essays

• Confessional Poetry
• Mad Poet’s Society: McLean Hospital, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton

Poetry

• Alone – by Maya Angelou
• Death and the Lady
• One need not be a chamber to be haunted – Emily Dickinson
• Tulips – Sylvia Plath
• Waking in the Blue – By Robert Lowell
• Wanting to Die – by Anne Sexton

A Day In The Life Of An Author

• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
• Charlotte Bronte
• Dorothy Parker’s Birthday
• Dostoyevsky’s Notebook
• Dostoyevsky Sentenced to Death
• Ezra Pound
• Frankenstein
• Franz Kafka, the little girl and her doll
• “Howl” – by Allen Ginsberg
• Mad Girl’s Love Song – Sylvia Plath
• Mary Wollstonecraft Birthday
• Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Marry
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• Sylvia Plath Fig Tree Metaphor
• Virginia Woolf Born in 1882
• Virginia Woolf Suicide Note

Most Admired Women Authors

• Anne Sexton
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Christine de Pizan
• Dorothy Parker
• Edith Wharton
• Hildegard of Bingen
• Isak Dinesen
• Marguerite Porete
• Marie de France
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Sylvia Plath
• Virginia Woolf

Most Admired Male Authors

• Christopher Hitchens
• Emile Zola
• Herman Wouk
• Samuel Barclay Beckett
• Terence (Terry) David John Pratchett
• Theodor Seuss Geisel
• William Shakespeare on Religion

Book Reviews

• Book Review: A Dog’s Head by Jean Dutourd
• Book Review: Buddha & The Borderline
• Book Review: The Eight Gates Of Zen
• Book Review: The Girls – Emma Cline
• Book Review: Red Comet by Heather Clark
• Cookbook Review: Odd Bits

Literary Quotes

• Dante Alighieri, canto 1, The Divine Comedy
• Edith Wharton Quotes for Women’s History Month
• If we are to get on the right side of the world revolution…
• I Met A Dragon – Jack Prelutsky
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act II, Scene I – William Shakespeare
• Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes for Women’s History Month
• Nobody-But-Yourself – e.e. cummings
• Paradise Lost, Book II Excerpt
• Sylvia Plath on Writing
• Virginia Woolf. from “To the Lighthouse”
• Virginia Woolf “On Writing“

My Scribblings: Poetry, Essays and Fictions

Poetry Essays

• Poetic Forms I Employ

Poetry: Distractions – Amour

• Memories of A Perfect Evening
• The Summer Rain In Her Hair: A Sestina

Poetry: Distractions – Zen Buddhism

• Untitled I
• Untitled II

Poetry: Mental Illness & Addiction

• A Few Lines
• Age 16, 1988
• A Guilt That Consumes
• A Second Chance Whether Deserved or Not
• A Sigh
• Cutting: A Love Story
• Do I Dare Ask
• Flashbacks
• Guilt, Pity and Envy
• Harvard Square
• In Response
• I Stare Into the Darkness
• My Voices, My Dear
• Night Terrors
• Self-Imprisoned Into This Cell of Orchestrated Ignorance
• Shadows
• Shards of My Soul
• The Ceiling Spins
• The Sins of my Past Conceived and Made Flesh
• Trailhead
• Trauma: The Next Morning, Every Morning
• Vignette of The Past
• Word Salad

Politics

• Bernie Mittens crocheted doll
• Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT)
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) “Worst Colleges for Free Speech”
• H. L. Mencken
• Homicide Rates Up
• Impact of Mental Illness in the Justice System
• Joe Biden Declares Ottoman Empire Committed Armenian Genocide
• Martha White
• “Not Vaccinated” Patches
• School Prayer – Yes or No?
• Science Denialism and the Trump Administration
• Stop Blaming Mental Illness For Mass Shootings
• Time to take back Viking history and Symbolism from racists and white supremacists