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There once was a lady named Cager , Who as the result of a wager, Consented to fart, The entire oboe part Of Mozart's quartet in F-major...

This is the season for celebration, families and friends, and togetherness.  However, for some people it is the season of loneliness - not...

"Five Fans" by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Hand fans were once (and still are) used to create airflow to cool and refresh o...

In the Occitan during the 12th and 13th centuries, court women were expected to sing, play instruments, and write jocs partis or par...

In the ninth book of Homer's  Odyssey , Odysseus and his crew encounter the Lotophagi , or Lotus Eaters, on an island off the coast of N...

This has been a strange week for me.  In many ways, but particularly as a writer. I have been invited to three different fashion websites ...

When I was a lass, my dad took me one Saturday to a local supermarket opening (this dates me, but remember when store openings were a big th...

Over fifty years ago a song of seemingly nonsense scat in Creole patois became an international hit, and the subject of several lawsuits cla...

Measuring 5 feet by 7 feet, and weighing 133 pounds, Bhutan:  A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom has been deemed by Guinnes...

How many times have you wanted to express this deep, philosophical thought in other than plain old, slow, English, and were unable to? “...