Tempietto

Today fortune did not grant me the company of the friends I desire so much to see, but my time alone allowed me to travel more widely in Sec...

 It is only the dead who do not return, and after two hundred and ninety years I think perhaps I cannot die. Salazar found me while I was ...

Yolande Geoffrion appears to have given up her scribblings, sparing us her sentimental nonsense about the Comedie Italienne. If you wish to ...

waves upon the stony strand her lover's tears, all too soon parallel lines in perspective drawn the mist on the lake the call of the loo...

Paid a visit to the tailor's and ran up a bill... Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail, The best man among them durst not touch ...

While chatting with Enjah yesterday, I complained that for all my work representing artists in China, I had precious little opportunity to m...

I became reacquainted with Brillig Boomslang yesterday, and during a lovely conversation about the nature of reality and Buddhism, I discove...

"A friend is, as it were, a second self", Quoth Cicero, and I add, a third and fourth, As many selves as friends, each one more gl...

I kept the figurine that the stranger in the cemetery had given me and studied it with enormous interest for as I have said it was an exquis...

Enjah and Osprey have already blogged about our visit today to Drowsy, which was on Koinup's most popular spots this week. It is a beaut...

In the week after M. Panard and M. Fagan opened La Sylphide Supposee at the Théâtre de la Foire, my uncle Adraste took me back to the Théâtr...

While minding my own business this morning, I was commanded to entertain a certain Monsieur Anchor Gascoigne, an acquaintance of Enjah's...

Oh, the perils of travel, the joys of return. The grass is overgrown where the sheep could not graze and dust covers the mantel. I am weary,...

In the continued absense of the owner of this blog, I'm posting a link she tweeted whose subject matter is very close to her heart. I...

I may have disliked school, but I've always loved learning. I'm a learner for learning sake and in a recent post, Young opened my ey...

There is nothing that gives me greater hope for the future than TEDTalksDirector on YouTube. One of the most profound miracles of the inter...

I paid a visit to this 18th Century roleplaying sim, very nicely conceived and carefully built, with considerable effort put into its constr...

This novel by Kate Mosse was recommended to me by Enjah and HBA, and though I meant to borrow it from the library before my trip, in the end...

Elle Coyote's recent posts on Deliberate Practice and Talent is Overrated have put me in a contemplative mood about what I am doing, ...

With one hand in his and the other around the little figurine in my pocket, I followed my uncle Adraste as he rushed from the cemetery direc...