The “official” Robert Burns website is excellent. It has all his poems (over 500 of them), biographical material, stuff for sale, free e-cards that you can send to people, and links to all things Scotch (or is it Scottish?). Also, I found on the website instructions on how to host a Robert Burns Day Supper. Apparently, the only rules are that this supper should include haggis, poetry, and Scotch whiskey and should be held on or near the date of January 25th, Burns’ birthday. I think it’s too late to plan one this year, but I’m aiming for next year. I also have to figure out what we “teetotallers” drink at a Burns Supper. I’m not truly a Scot, I guess, because I’m also not sure I can handle haggis. Partial list of Ingredients: beef liver, lamb kidneys, lamb shoulder, and oatmeal.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
An’ ev’n devotion!