13 for the 13th

BOO! (Did I scare you? No?) It’s Friday the 13th, a day designed to set fear into superstitious people everywhere. In any given year, you might get two or three different Friday the 13ths. There was one last August. I know, because I wrote a post all about it. 13 supposedly represents an aberration, but [...]

Under a Certain Little Star

by Wislawa Szymborska translated by Joanna Trzeciak My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity in case I’m mistaken. Don’t be angry, happiness, that I take you for my own. May the dead forgive me that their memory’s but a flicker. My apologies to time for the quantity of world overlooked [...]

The Cotton Anniversary

In just ten days, Ordinary Mer will celebrate its second anniversary. My little baby blog is growing up! The second anniversary, Wikipedia tells me, is traditionally cotton (U.S.) or paper (U.K.), though those willing to be daring and more modern might go for china (the dishes, not the actual country, which – I presume – [...]