Celebrity
Betty White: 100 Moments
The old adage in Hollywood is that to be a success you either have to ‘fight like Hell’ and claw your way to the top and/or sleep your way up. Betty White did neither of […]
Month: January 2022
Modern Living
Hummingbird Tea Room marks 10 Years
For the finest English tea experience in Texas, one must travel to The Woodlands, close to a 3-hour drive from Austin. I recently had High Tea at the Driskill hotel in downtown Austin, and while […]
Book Reviews
Ancient Latin Poetry Books
What is a poem? That is the question Gabriel Macedo (University of Liège in Belgium) tackles at the outset of this book. While the ancient Romans left us few theoretical definitions, the one that seems […]
Book Reviews
Achilles and the Black Cloud of Grief
In this book on the futility of longing for the dead, Professor Emily Austin of the University of Chicago explores the reaction of Achilles to the loss of his compatriot Patroclus. The text is, of […]
Book Reviews
Jan. 6 and the Ancient Greek Poet Simonides
Proving that poetry is the path to eternity, we have here a large book on Simonides. While most of the leaders and military generals of that long ago time when he lived (born in 556 […]
Book Reviews
Building Democracy
The built environment is something we often take for granted. For example, if you were born in London anytime in the last century, the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace would be seemingly timeless landmarks. […]