Corinna's Going A-Maying Themes

May Day is about the birds and bees, both literally and figuratively. Winter's over, nature's roaring back to life, and the budding boys and girls of Corinna's village are doing the same thing. But...

Let's face it: she may be beautiful, she may be brilliant, she may be nicer than Santa Claus. But Corinna is kind of a drag. In fact, she's pretty much dead weight—the lazy, sleepy center of a po...

Here's the thing about time: it just doesn't quit. If you're Einstein, you can theorize about the relativity of time and how the universe is just one big co-op where the past, future, and present c...

Congress is all about creating national holidays (hello Mothers' Day!). But what if your representatives started plotting to destroy national holidays? Pumpkin pie makes people fat? Bye-bye, Thanks...

If Christianity is an inside religion—churches, monasteries, saying prayers round the kitchen table—then May Day paganism is definitely an outside religion. It exists to welcome in the spring,...