From the Shores of Introspect and Retrospect

I spent the last week in upper New York and Manhattan. What a truly wonderful place to be for many reasons! I did so many things, went to co...

Counting the days to the New Year, to new footsteps on new sand, new oceans of peace and the wide open possibilities of the future. Hap...

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and si...

I was visiting my dear Cupcake Man and discovered that this friend had reached right down onto one of the soft quiet beaches shoring the...

Dear Daydream, They are hiring for a photographer and photo editor at a baby and mom business called Zulily - which I just love , based ...

In hope for those who fight for their lives. In memorium for those who have lost the battle. 

~K.I.S.S.~ To say that I have a busy, chaotic life is a monumental understatement. For a long time I've lived under the misconception ...

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce

Asleep, my love? What, dead, my dove? O Pyramus, arise! Speak, speak. Quite dumb? Dead, dead? A tomb Must cover thy sweet eyes. These lily l...

I received a call from a gentleman this morning that restored some of my faith in humanity.  He'd found a wallet (no cash, he said), but...

This morning as I was getting ready for work, the dj's on the radio asked a controversial and interesting question. Who should pay on a...

Viaggiatore is 4 years old today! Happy Birthday my beautiful muse! We've traveled so far; over the world, through days and weeks and ...

"Yes, I'd like the Reality entree with the special Common Sense Sauce, a side of Snark, lightly grilled, the Wild Side Salad but pl...

In June, 2009  AirFrance Flight 447 fell out of the sky and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean .  France's Bureau of Investigation and Anal...

"All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand. " ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

This is not the first post that Viaggiatore and I have published on masques... but it is a different masque, this time. Oscar Wilde said, ...

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel...

"Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential. We want to empower our pe...

"I do not believe that we are what our lives have been, but rather, we are what we have made of our lives." ~Scarlett