There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.Ernest Hemingway On this day in 1899, famed…… Read more “Happy Birthday Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 2019)”
Category: History
Z&H Book Club: A History of the United States in Five Crashes
The first book has been checked off my Z&H Book Club list. One down, fourteen to go. I finished A History of the United States in Five…… Read more “Z&H Book Club: A History of the United States in Five Crashes”
June 17, 2019: RIP Gloria Vanderbilt
I’ve never let myself dwell on what other people think of me … You can never change their minds so why waste time trying? Why agonize over…… Read more “June 17, 2019: RIP Gloria Vanderbilt”
Armistice Day (November 11, 2018)
In the early morning hours of November 11, 2018, a treaty was signed on a railway car in Northern France. This treaty was no ordinary treat. It…… Read more “Armistice Day (November 11, 2018)”
July 14, 2018
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine. -Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Seems like a fitting quote…… Read more “July 14, 2018”
July 4, 2018
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. -Woodrow…… Read more “July 4, 2018”
“Gatsby-Worthy” Mansions
Had a little bit of down time at work today. Rather than drool over the 2018 ACL lineup for the twentieth time, I browsed through my news…… Read more ““Gatsby-Worthy” Mansions”
Stephen Hawking
And another one bites the dust. Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. Dr. Hawking was a Cambridge University physicist and best-selling author who pondered…… Read more “Stephen Hawking”
Hubert de Givenchy
Walking back from the break room to get my afternoon snack, my phone lit up with news notifications. Hubert de Givenchy, gentle giant and fashion icon, has…… Read more “Hubert de Givenchy”
March 8, 2018 – #InternationalWomensDay
Today is International Women’s Day. I take this day with some form of bittersweetness, because, let’s face it, we as a society should be at a point…… Read more “March 8, 2018 – #InternationalWomensDay”
December 27, 2017
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. -Marlene Dietrich Happy birthday Marlene! Props to Sasha Velour for creating such a magnificent Google…… Read more “December 27, 2017”
December 11, 2017
The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could not be…… Read more “December 11, 2017”
December 1, 2017
On this day in 1903, the first Western film, The Great Train Robbery, premiered. Tot think 114 years ago films were primitive pieces of silence that emphasized…… Read more “December 1, 2017”
November 27, 2017
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -Jimi Hendrix Jimi, today would have been your 75th birthday. Why did…… Read more “November 27, 2017”
November 11, 2017
To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and…… Read more “November 11, 2017”
