It was during my last visit to Madrid, Spain, in the enchanting company of my late wife Carina and my two daughters, that we enjoyed the pleasure of day trips to the city of Toledo and also to El Escorial.Monasterio y Sitio de El Escorialas it is known in Spanish is a vast grey gr...
None of these worldly things are wicked or sinful in themselves, but when they become the objects of our desires and the focus of our lives, the god of this world has snared us into his trap. Our Lord warned us not to love the world nor the things of this world, because they would...
The woman hastened in feminine frenzy from the ricketty structure to alarm the neighbors; but before the desired assistance could be laid hold upon there had been consummated an alliance of the riotous elements which only He who holdeth a world in the hollow of His hand could dissolve. It w...
you can first see his camera car reflected in the window, and then the reflection of the curved stairway entrance to the lost Garden Court Apartments that once stood at 7030 Hollywood Blvd. at the corner of N. Sycamore. Check out the many Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd videos hosted on my ...
Shimoda’s remembrance is also for the living, says Karen Tei Yamashita:“we who survive on the margins of graveyards and rituals of our own making.” (Anne) When I was White by Sarah Valentine: A memoir from the author, translator, and scholar about being raised in Pittsburgh, ...
I worked with one chap who had been on the front lines in WW1. And none of them ever talked about it. We went to Remembrance services in market places and chapels, we had a minute’s silence each year in school assembly. We had ‘at the going down of the sun’. But the people...