Author: Dorothy McLean
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The Tea Party, Etc.
The regular crowd at Mrs McLean’s Waltzing Party have been invited to a tea party on October 25, and I will be giving there a brief address on the subject […]
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The Children’s Ceilidh
I’m excited to announce plans for a New Year’s Children’s Ceilidh for Parents who Love the Traditional Latin Mass (and Their Bairns). This will be in Edinburgh in mid-January 2026. […]
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Welcoming
On Sunday I spied a new family coming into the parish hall for After-Mass Tea. Perhaps “new” is the wrong word to use, for members of this family have been […]
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Theologians of Dance
Every once in a while, a blogger should pick up an actual book on his or her topic. A book (in case you’ve forgotten) is a pile of paper pages […]
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A Village or the Parish
I have been musing over the role of dance in friendship and so turned again to Michael Platt’s astonishing and insightful 2009 essay “A Different Drummer.” Actually a thoughtful jeremiad […]
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A Very Merry Michaelmas!
Happy Feast Day! It’s a beautiful day in Edinburgh, the sun having burned away the mist. There are crunchy yellow leaves huddled up in the corners of the streets, and […]
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Carrot cake for Michaelmas
The Michaelmas Dance 2025 is tomorrow night, so I’m taking a short moment before writing out a final shopping list to reflect on traditions old and new. Deeply sunk in […]
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May I have this dance?
We held our third and last pre-Michaelmas Dance workshop yesterday, and I was delighted with it. For one thing, we had 8 women (and girls) to 11 men (and boys), […]
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La Maison de la Valse
This morning I am torn between admiration and despair, for I have seen some videos about the waltzing scene in Paris. A married couple called Charles and Hélène de Lauzun […]
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Ancient Arts
In 63 BC, Cicero defended the Roman consul Lucius Licinius Murena against charges of electoral bribery. Cato was among the prosecutors, and inter alia he accused Murena of having a […]