November: Bits & Sundries

Note: I wrote this post on Friday. I thought I’d posted it. Turns out, I should have double-checked. So in today’s post “Rethinking the Medieval”, when I say “if I piqued your interest” this is the post I mean. You live & learn. 🙂 As Halloween approached, the Twittersphere came alive with preparation and excitement […]

Rethinking the Medieval

Hey, friends! If I piqued your interest in the debate over the renaming of Anglo-Saxon studies (per last week’s post), the Medieval Workshop site eloquently explains the situation in this post by Mary Rambaran-Olm. Please follow the link! Brief Takeaways: ▫️ There was an agenda behind the term “Anglo-Saxon,” which evolved from myths about one […]

October Birthday

My birthday was yesterday! It’s the little things, little (and big) discoveries that amount to joy in life. Here are 34, in no particular order: 1. I’m not old. It was in vogue (but not actually funny) to lament about it when I was 23, but I’m over it now. This isn’t the 18th century; […]