We are snowed in tonight. You know, when I was a little kid and anyone would refer to being "snowed in", I would picture a house completely walled in by snow. "We're snowed in!", to me, seemed to mean a complete inability to even open one's front door. Well ( Read more... )

In a rather round-about way, as is often the case, today I discovered and was enchanted by The Decemberists' The Crane Wife. Where I was in 2006 when the album was released is a puzzlement. Reading that "The Island" is based on The Tempest was enough to send me into geek overdrive. I was unfamiliar with the Crane Wife folktale, but it sounds so ( Read more... )