History | History
Dec.18.2012
There are many ways to honour an author. There are many ways to honour the dead. There are many ways to honour Vaclav Havel. This one - if I may be so bold - seems just a bit Kafkaesque.
Vaclav Havel died in December 2011
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Admirers Press 'Short Trousers' To Honor Vaclav...
|
Dec.11.2012
Sarcophagus of the Married Couple
Late C6th BCE
‘There was a smooth, round contentment to her as she sat upon a dining couch with her husband, head resting against his shoulder as he embraced her. Their happiness revealed by the curve of their lips and the ease of their touch…’ The Wedding...
|
Dec.11.2012
On the Queen’s birthday celebration in May 1896, an overloaded trolley car collapsed a bridge, killing over fifty people in British Columbia’s capital. Victoria has a rich history beginning with the HBC, the Royal Navy, and a few gold...
|
Dec.10.2012
Just a few days from now, my oldest and my youngest daughters and I will leave for Spain. We are going for a little walk, I like to say, just a little walk. If you don’t hear from us, we’re fine. If you don’t see us on Facebook or Twitter or any of my other Internet haunts, we’re...
|
|
Dec.05.2012
In the beginning was the word so, if God ain't dead , then neither is fiction. And I am not referring to the fiction of advertising, or political blather, or the outright nonsense of TV "Reality"programs. I mean the storey-telling which, fuelled with craft and intelligence and knowledge, is...
|
Dec.03.2012
Kafka makes the list but he was an old man just shy of forty-one. It is a wonder that all these writers have made such an impact on their culture, and continue so to do.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
7 Writers Who Died Young
by Gabe Habas
Though death and authors is a well-...
|
Nov.26.2012
I'm amazed afresh everyday that I remember enough to breath and move about. Actually, sometimes I forget to move anything except my fingers, sitting and typing until my butt and the rest of me is dessicated and numb. That's more because I'm engrossed with whatever has been set before me...
|
Nov.14.2012
Hi, everyone! I am Cheryl and I wrote See Ya, which traces relationships and stories through generations and years from the 1940s to the 1990s.
See Ya began when my father died and I realized how much of his life has been apart from the man I knew. The ties to World War II happened when some...
|
Nov.11.2012
It was 1966. Dean Kohler of Portsmouth, Virginia was a year out of high school and had just landed a recording contract with his rock band, the Satellites. Soon, the whole world would be listening to his songs on the radio.
And then his draft notice arrived.
But even in...
|
Nov.09.2012
I suppose an influx of tourists might smudge the purity of Shakespeare And Co., but better that than the store go under. And it sounds as if the new owner (and daughter of the previous owner) will keep many things the way they were while introducing the electrified modern world. And you can still...
|