“Define a lady:  She who owns an oboe yet refuses to play it.” – Oboe Jokes   The illustration is Canaletto's "Arrival of the F...

“Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.” - Nelson Mandela   It’s All Saints Day today and to celebrate it we baked raisin br...

“Everything I do from now on, I’ll have a mustache. I can promise you that. I don’t care who I have to convince. If you see me with a mus...

“It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things o...

“We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.” - John...

“When a white army battles Indians and wins, it is called a great victory, but if they lose it is called a massacre.” - Chiksika, Shawnee...

“My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a...

“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before th...

“I don’t like gourmet cooking or ‘this’ cooking or ‘that’ cooking. I like good cooking.” - James Beard   We bought some lovely eggplant ...

“Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.” - Henry David Thoreau   A myth is a traditional story, especially one concerning ...

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.” - Aldous Huxley   Last...

“If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory eventually turns into a defeat.” - Simone de Beauvoir   Today is Somalia’s R...

“The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.” - Bill Cosby   We watched a very interesting film at th...

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” - Scott Adams   Robert Rauschenberg (October 22,...

“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.” - Diana Vreeland   Rodolfo Luigi Boccher...

“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” - Mark Twain   We have had some wild Spring weather,...

“I don’t wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.” - Gene Simmons   Time has always fascinated human beings. The int...

“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.” - Franz Kafka   World Food Day is celebrated...

“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.” - Benjamin Disraeli   Although Wollongong is New South Wales’ t...