From the Shores of Introspect and Retrospect

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."  ~A. A. Milne

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...

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

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...

"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

Federico Fellini (a man with a brilliant mind, in my opinion), said... “You exist only in what you do.” I thought about that this week... ...

There were so many different grains of sand that fell this year. Each one very precious. Each one with significant purpose and meaning. I l...

Our most sincere and delighted congratulations to Liu Xiaobo for winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year! Our most sincere and heartsick s...

The bad news: letting go can be a difficult thing to do. The good news: once we let go, it leaves our hands wide open to accept new thing...

"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, b...