Starlight and Saucepans

Inklings // March 2025

The prompt for the March Inklings (check out the rules for linking up here!) is a scene with strangers meeting / becoming acquainted. Since we are in the beginning of Holy Week, leading up to the most holy time of…

By Lizzie Hexam April 15, 2025Period Dramas, Spiritual Life3 Comments

ceramic rabbit sitting on top of a stack of books

Bookishness Spiritual Life

“It will be an inducement to her to read more herself. … She means it, I know.”

...or in which Lizzie rambles about books she wants to read, because Lack of Time In General also means Lack of Time to Write Actual Intelligent Blog Posts, and this will be quick and fun to write (and hopefully at…

By Lizzie Hexam April 5, 2025Bookishness, Spiritual Life26 Comments

Miscellaneous

Sunshine Blogger Award #3

The lovely Stephanie of Stephanie's Ninth Suitcase has tagged me for the Sunshine Blogger Award! This is always such a fun tag, and I'm excited to answer Stephanie's questions! First things first, here are the rules. 1. Display the award’s…

By Lizzie Hexam March 28, 2025Miscellaneous25 Comments

Cross on top of a church with a sunset in the background

Spiritual Life

Two Christian Music Artists I Enjoy (as someone who isn’t a fan of the genre)

I'll admit that Christian music isn't usually my cup of tea. There are individual Christian/worship songs that I like (some of them quite a lot), but I don't generally seek out artists or songs in the genre. Part of that…

By Lizzie Hexam March 21, 2025Spiritual Life16 Comments

Period Dramas

Inklings // February 2025

The prompt for this month's Inklings link-up (check out the rules for linking up here!) is a scene at the piano. This prompt just calls out for Jane Austen submissions, doesn't it? I considered trying to be different and original…

By Lizzie Hexam March 13, 2025Period Dramas9 Comments

Spiritual Life

The Surprising Joy of Ash Wednesday

In a few minutes from now I'll be leaving for a quiet, somber Mass with almost no singing, no Gloria, and at which we in the congregation will receive on our foreheads blessed ash in the shape of a cross.…

By Lizzie Hexam March 5, 2025Spiritual Life7 Comments

movie cover for The Personal History of David Copperfield 2019

Period Dramas

The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) Review

Last year I read David Copperfield for the first time, and I laughed, I cried, it moved me, Bob. (You can read a blow-by-blow of my thoughts on each chapter if you want. *waves hand in direction of David Copperfield…

By Lizzie Hexam February 25, 2025Period Dramas9 Comments

picture of fiddler in Fiddler on the Roof

Period Dramas

Fiddler on the Roof and What Makes a Good Movie Musical

In my humble opinion, it's very hard to make a good movie musical. Musicals and movies are two wonderful ways of telling stories, but I would consider them to be pretty nearly diametrically opposed means of storytelling. Musicals are inherently…

By Lizzie Hexam February 13, 2025Period Dramas28 Comments

Miscellaneous Period Dramas

We Love Musicals Week Tag

We Love Musicals Week is starting today over at Hamlette's Soliloquy! I'm hoping to get a post up for that later this week, but in the meantime I decided to fill out this fun-looking We Love Musicals Week tag. 1. …

By Lizzie Hexam February 10, 2025Miscellaneous, Period Dramas10 Comments

Bookishness

Inklings // January 2025

Happy February, my peeps! To celebrate the start of a new month, let's post an Inklings...from last month. The Inklings link-up for January (check out Heidi's post here for rules to link up!) is a scene at sunrise. I've been…

By Lizzie Hexam February 1, 2025Bookishness14 Comments