You call this archeology? When I was a kid I used to hate Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. That first scene always annoyed me. We don’t need a logical and detailed explanation for every little detail of his previous movies (where his scar came from, why he is afraid of snakes, why he wears a hat etc). Isn’t it possible he just...
I'm posting one day in advance of my regular schedule in order to participate on the weekly meme Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is "freebie" so I chose childhood favorites. As a matter of fact, I still own all of the books in the list so that means they are still interesting for adults. Here...
A little bit of history Date: Location: Galleria Uffizi, Florence, Italy The statues portray a scene from Greek mythology. Niobe was a queen who had fourteen children and unable to keep her mouth shut about it, she went around bragging about her large offspring. Her mistake was to do this in front of the goddess Leto who had only two children. Leto was...
I’m very lucky to live in a house where I can use movie lines in a conversation. Sure, it would be nice if we quoted Shakespeare during dinner, but the reality is that we are a much more pop culture oriented family. Here are some of the movie quotes we use in our house: 1) “Put a hot towel over your head” from...
Twain’s attacks on Austen are over a hundred years old, but he better watch it. You guys have probably already heard about Mark Twain bad-mouthing Jane Austen. Even though making author-on-author attacks is every writer’s prerogative, I can’t share Twain’s views. It just so happens that I was reading Twain’s “The Prince and the Pauper” the other day. I admit it – it...
Photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson I've recently became very interested in taking pictures for my blog. It's so interesting changing filters and composing a frame. I feel just like Austin Powers. The other day while I was taking some pictures around my house, I saw my sister sketching. I couldn't help comparing paintings and photographs. To me, the deal with cameras is that they only...
