Rusty Ring

My very best wishes to all Rusty Ring readers, regular and irregular, on this Christmas Day. May it be filled with warmth and l...

I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas Just like the kind I used to know With raincoats dripping And blue tarps whipping As thirty...

Like a lot of old people, I've come to find myself adrift at Christmas. Family mostly gone. Friends busy with their own. I nev...

Funerals are for the living. Graduation is for the parents. Holidays are for the children. (Photo of two children in Cambridge ...

(English holly [Ilex aquifolium] is a favourite since childhood, though it's invasive here. Owing to sexual reproduction that...

As the world swings into Christmas, I believe justice demands I use this forum to correct a historical inequity that's been allowed...

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(Last Christmas I got a tiny cellophane envelope containing half a teaspoon of hard, opaque, plastic-looking multicoloured beads, a...

On this Christmas of 2023, all of us here at Rusty Ring wish our readers the best and kindest of seasons. Right in darkness there i...

"Within darkness there is light, do not be against the light." Shítóu Xīqiān (Sekitō Kisen) Best of thoughts to my Jewis...

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Here are a three easy tricks to spruce up your workaday winter tea for the season: Oranges are an ancient part of the holidays, o...

Back in 2014 I shared a little one-man Christmas cheer game I indulge in at this time of year, a simple Google search string that fills...

(Swedish breakfast laid by me and enjoyed by my brother and I, Christmas morning 2021.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World...

the mountain hermit's fire is rising winter rain Issa (Photo courtesy of Edal Anton Lefterov and Wikimedia Commons.)

(A year ago I shared the just-finished foundation of my new shop. This is what that space looks like now. Appropriately cramped and...

"Life is cause and effect. And you certainly are no stranger to the cause." So says the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, ...

(There they go again, those ghostly white rhodies . This time it's another bush, about 100 yards from the house, suddenly covered with...

We in Christian-majority countries are whelmed this time of year in the Nativity. That is, the legend of Christ's birth, with atten...

(Trivet made from an offcut of 3/4 inch plywood, upcycled for the grandparents.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .