CLASSICAL TRIVIA! – Trip the light fantastic
Trip the light fantastic Meaning To dance, especially in an imaginative or ‘fantastic’ manner. Origin This apparently obscure expression […]
Journal
GUEST BLOG – Why on earth would Sharon Zane go back to Paris again?
Ann has asked me to write a bit about why I will be taking part in La Belle Epoque trip
GUEST BLOG – Betty Ann Jordan on Looking at Photographs with Susan Sontag
“Like a pair of binoculars with no right or wrong end, the camera makes exotic things near, intimate, and familiar
GUEST BLOG – Jimmye Hillman’s poem, penned late one night during our American Civil War trip
You sorta hadta be there to get all the references, but y’all can see what a fine poet Jimmye Hillman
TRAVEL PURSUITS — Chicago, a city of big shoulders
“Once you’ve come to be part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a
GUEST BLOG – Thomas Jones on why you should choose Buddenbrooks this July
In scope, detail, and humanity, Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks is a classic of modem literature and continues to be a model
GUEST BLOG – How Darwin Made Monkeys of Us All, by Mark Cwik
Upon first reading Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, the great 19th-century biologist Thomas Henry Huxley—later to be known
GUEST BLOG – Ghazals – erotic & spiritual, by Lisa Pasold
The ghazal is my favourite poetic form—even though it’s less familiar than the sonnet or the haiku. A sonnet gives
GUEST BLOG – Julia Zarankin on Reading Proust
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust. I doubt there’s a better
GUEST BLOG – Sean Forester on solitude and connection in the paintings at the Chicago Art Institute
The man on the left sits solitary. The bartender seems to be speaking, but no one responds (the woman looks
