Winter's Tale comments for this week are starting to trickle in. Read them under the February 7 post, and keep them coming. If sixth-graders can invent both a prompt and a response, the rest of us should be able to put together at least a couple of words.

Today I'm submitting a long essay-review of The Art of the Sonnet: A Norton Anthology to a journal. This essay has been in existence since 2008. I have submitted it to several journals and have received from all of them the identical response: NOTHING. Not even a rejection. Not even a peep when I query. It's been very strange, and I'm getting sick of it. So if (when?) that happens again, I'm publishing the essay here. (But perhaps as soon as I hit the "publish post" button, it will become invisible. Anyway, be forewarned.)

Dinner tonight: homemade sausage, sauerkraut, potato salad, cucumbers, chocolate pudding.