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Good, Better, Best: New Reads of 2024

January 21, 2025

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Some of My Favorite Poems

I feel like I haven't written a post in a while that was just me talking about something I love. Sure, there have been posts where I'm talking about, say, Catholic authors I love, but there's always an element of analysis. I haven't hardcore gushed in quite a while. (I could be wrong and just...not thinking of something obvious that I gushed about. But I don't feel like I've gushed in a while.) I was looking for The Nutmeg's thoughts on "Lepanto" a bit ago, because I had to read it aloud to Galadriel, who had to read it for homeschool co-op (they assigned "Lepanto" to 6th & 7th graders. Which is a cool move but also...I barely understood it until, like, college), and I came across her post that listed off twelve of her favorite poems. And I thought to myself..."I like poetry...I could do that!" And since most of my favorite poems are very different from hers, I figured I could categorize it as 'inspiration' and n...

February Wrap-Up + Quirk

This is the part where I talk about the weather, or complain about how fast the year is going, or whatever, but...I talk about the weather later, and the year doesn't feel like it's going very quickly at the moment, so...on to the rest of the post! 1. I have, overall, had an excellent February. I got to go to SEEK 2022 (more on that in a moment), managed to stay on top of schoolwork (ish), took my first ever essay test (it was HARD, y'all), went to Culvers (apparently a Midwest staple chain?) for the first time ever, experienced snow + wind for the first time (not my favorite thing), and watched several episodes of Julie and the Phantoms. Among other things. In addition to other Illinois-related firsts, I also had the lovely first of a fire alarm that went off at like 5 AM on a Thursday morning, when it was below freezing, and the wind was 12 mph. It. Was. Cold. And also a bit scary, because I'd never actually experienced a fire alarm before (#homeschooler), but everyt...

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