From the monthly archives: July 2011
Today, because Pascal has so much to say on the subject, we are going to talk about a topic near and dear to the hearts of creative writers and all creative people: imagination. In fact, imagination is not only our primary tool of trade but is an [...]
As I sit here on a Wednesday night feeling like nothing ever happens on my street, I am thinking about the week so far, trying to figure out how I actually spend my time. I once read a silly article about the Brady Bunch that asked the question, “What did Carol Brady do?” [...]
Imagine that all the gods created by every human society that ever lived from prehistoric times to our own times were real. Imagine that there was a strange disconnected continent to which groups from different cultures traveled throughout history and where they would stay for a while. Each group would bring [...]
“We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold. Qualities carried to excess are bad for us and cannot be perceived; we no longer feel them, we suffer them.”
Pascal got that right! After two days of 100++ temps and an a/c unit not up to extremes, I [...]
Welcome visitors for the She Writes Blog Hop. This is an eclectic blog that focuses mainly on books and ideas. I do some book reviews but I don’t really see my role as judging other writers. I prefer to encourage them. I mainly like to discuss the valuable and intriguing ideas that are in [...]
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima is a Hollywood film based on the experiences of three Portuguese shepherd children who had visions of the Virgin Mary in 1917. My mother told me that my Dad was so taken with the film he wanted to name me either Lucía or [...]
When my son was a little boy he loved a Richard Scarry video he called “Busy People.” It showed a town populated by anthropomorphized civic-minded cartoon animals doing happily doing their jobs to the rhythm of catchy tunes – teaching school, delivering the mail, running the grocery [...]
The local paper today had an article about a homeowners association near Richmond, Virginia that voted to exterminate the Canada geese that have invaded the plush green lawns of the neighborhood. The article doesn’t actually say the lawns are plush and green but I assume that if it’s the type of neighborhood that has [...]
Yesterday I finally finished my reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame and then this morning on the way to work I heard on the radio it is Bastille Day, the French national holiday celebrating the day the people of Paris rose up, stormed the Bastille, and set the prisoners free. I did [...]
I’ve been putting it off all my life, but because so many of the books I read make references to the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, I finally decided to read it. I read The Inferno with horrified fascination – like a gory car accident you can’t help looking at. Poor ol’ Virgil – [...]
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