Luis Quintanilla was a Spanish artist (1893-1978) and a contemporary of Juan Gris. He got caught up in the politics of the time and served eight months in prison starting in October of 1934. Many of his artist, writer, and other intellectual friends had supported him during this time, some of whom he had met…
I love perfume. I feel incomplete if I leave my house without applying some sort of scent. Just enough so I can smell it. I really don’t care if anyone else does, but it is always nice to get a compliment on one’s perfume. Perfume defined from dictionary.com: per·fume [n. pur-fyoom, per-fyoom; v. per-fyoom, pur-fyoom]…
April is National Poetry Month, so today I write about Ozymandias, a sonnet by Shelley, first published in 1818. Shelley wrote this poem after a statue of Ramesses II was found in Egypt. Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert…
A nickname is “a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name”. After doing a little research, it is amazing how many nicknames there are and where they can be derived. A few examples are: Family – to distinguish generations with the…
Aloha, In 2009, I posted a quick review of a book of short stories by Wayne Moniz. The setting for the short stories was Maui. In 2011, Mr. Moniz wrote another book and self-published this volume. Somehow, this book was not on my radar and I just found out about it recently, thanks to…
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