Old-fashioned Christmas cards

Nostalgia is a way of capturing time past.

“Words, words, mere words…”

…as Shakespeare wrote in “Troilus and Cressida”.

An elephant in the room

“The Carnival of the Animals” is a suite by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns for which Ogden Nash once provided poems.

At the Seaside (IV)

A master of light verse, Ogden Nash (1902-1971) was born in Rye, New York. The city of Nashville, Tennessee, was named in honour of one of his ancestors.

In praise of metaphor

“One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by the authors of simile and metaphor,” wrote Ogden Nash in his poem “Very Like a Whale”.

Rabbits! And thereby hangs a tale (almost)

The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit is the world’s smallest breed, and one of the rarest. Fully grown these little creatures weigh in at less than a pound. Some years ago, it was feared that the breed had vanished, but a few were found and rescued.