Let it snow
Denver is supposed to get 8 to 15 inches of snow in the next 24 hours. To me, that makes it the holiday season, and also makes me want to hunker down in my town house with things that bring …
Category: Fictional Heroes
Day 4: Sydney
Day 4 in Sydney was about indulgence. I slept in, went to the gym, and finally ventured out for lunch at Aria. As I was looking for “fine dining” in Sydney, this restaurant was on all the lists. Surprisingly, most …
Icarus Rising
Why did Icarus need to fall? I remember translating (from the Latin) the myth of Icarus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a young girl. It seemed natural and obvious that Icarus should fall. What hubris! How dare he try to fly so high? …
Funky Winkerbean
I read the comic Funky Winkerbean each morning on the Seattle Post Intelligencer. The creator, Tom Batiuk, has been unafraid to write and draw about difficult issues: teen pregnancy, adoption, alcoholism, divorce and most recently death of a beloved wife …
Fate’s Fugitive
I took more than seven years of Latin in the distant past. I loved the structure of the language and the stories. One of my favorites was the Aeneid. Virgil’s Aeneid begins: arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris …
Slaying Dragons
I recently sent a collection of children's fiction to a friend with young children. As I was looking through my library for age appropriate books, I flipped through Coraline by Neil Gaiman. I love the quote he put in the …
The Power of Fiction
I love fiction. It used to concern me that I would much rather curl up with a grand glorious epic novel than read something weighty (non-fiction) until I read this commentary by Orson Scott Card in his book Maps in …
An Ode to Octavia Butler 1947-2006
I love books. I especially love to own all of the written words of my favorite authors. One such author is/was Octavia Butler whose life was cut short at the age of 58 after slipping and falling on the walkway …