Charming and life-like stood the little marble form, and yet the wheel of the year has turned more than a thousand times since the time when it sprang forth from the stone. Just as often as the boy in the little room turned the spinning wheel had the great wheel murmured, before the ...
Who doesn't want a large semiaquatic mammal for the holidays? For then-10-year-old child star Gayla Peevey, not only did she score with the catchy tune, she also got her wish. The 1953 novelty hit, written by John Rox, rocketed up the pop charts and led to a ...
Still, I don’t typically break down blubbering when the famous die. For instance, though the death of Robin Williams was a terrible tragedy, my eyes did not immediately start leaking in response to that news1. And yet, there I was, rolling into the parking lot at work on Tuesday morni...
but the teens that did were loudly supportive of them and had we gotten more readers, this year’s vote might have been even more intense than it already was.
Living where I do, it is always such a relief to feel the return of warmer weather as it’s often cold and/or snowy for half the year! After all the slush and sleet, the winter sicknesses, thick socks, and bulky coats, it’s lovely to be able to step outside and see leaves on...
My husband never called me a sex goddess, but he did dream I was a helicopter pilot and he was my passenger. I was a very good pilot, he told me, and he felt no fear. The goddess of sex is, of course, Aphrodite.Born from sea-foam, carried naked to the shore in a shell, she...
Did I make myself heard? Scotch will make you a man. Model Display (clothes) as a mannequin; Model the latest fashion Make To cause to appear to be; to represent as. Homer makes Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus, unlike Hesiod who depicted her as born from the sea foam. Model Create a...
I've pretty much finished Aphrodite's area at this point. I think there's a Night Chest left, and a Vault of Tartarus that's way up on a rock pillar that I haven't figured out how to scale because it's surrounded by the red fog that instantly drains Fenyx's stamina. It turns ...
Do the children say "Well duh!"?' 'Y-yes, Mr. D.' 'Then, "Well, duh!" Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?' 'You're a god.' 'Yes, child.' 'A god. You.' —Rick Riordan 74 The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolesce...
Kate Nash – Made of Bricks (Seriously one of the best albums of the year. Constant rotation, I tell you!) Matt Nathanson – Some Mad Hope (I have been meaning to get to this (it’s been sitting on my ipod), and I am glad I finally did!!! It’s great!) Minnie Driver – Sea...