“I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.” - Johann Sebastian Bach Today I shall let two great musicia...

“Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.” - Leslie N...

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” - Oprah Winfrey Today is St Nicholas’ Day , celebrate...

“A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.” - Shirley Maclaine December the 5th is a very special day in Hol...

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.” - Mark Twain Do you like lists? Are you a com...

"Let Them Eat Cake..." - Misattributed to Marie Antoinette Last weekend we watched Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” (2006) on D...

La Butte rouge de Monthéus « Sur c’te butt’-là, y’avait pas d’ gigolettes Pas de marlous, ni de beaux muscadins ; Ah ! c’était loin du moul...

The finest examples of this are shown throughout his White Period. In his paintings of the White Period, calm and serenity reign, enhanced b...

For most of his life, Maurice would be in and out of hospitals and institutions for drunkenness and mental illness due to drinking. His moth...

For Art Sunday, today, a tragic figure who is associated with Paris and Monmartre, more than any other painter, perhaps. It is Maurice Utril...

“Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.” - Amanda Heggs The first of December i...

“Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.” - Alan Valentine Just this we...

“Cough: A convulsion of the lungs, vellicated by some sharp serosity.” – Samuel Johnson I am going to be very busy over the next few months....

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.” – Albert Camus To An Old, Fellow-University Student Friend, my h...

“Thou hadst better eat salt with the Philosophers of Greece, than sugar with the Courtiers of Italy.”
- Benjamin Franklin For Book Tuesday ...

“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.” - Martha Washington Happiness… What is it? When do...

The rest of the story has Maxentius calling in a squad of philosophers to dispute with St. Catherine and lead her to apostasy, but the saint...

St. Catherine was widely popular from the middle ages through the 17th century, and her images are among the most common in the art of those...

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." - Margaret Fuller It is St Catherine’s Day today and for reasons t...

“What luck for rulers, that men do not think.” - Adolf Hitler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler This morning, bright and early we walked t...