Thursday, April 25, 2024
Rome. Early 1500s. Imagine standing on a flimsy platform held up by scaffolding, around 40 feet above the floor, craning your neck up at a ceiling whilst painting lifelike frescoes on wet plaster. Imagine wet plaster and paint dripping onto your face for hours a day. Imagine doing this work […]
Who sets fashion trends? Your grandma? Me? Designers at Prada or someone at Old Navy? Well, the answer is none of the above exactly set the trends, though you never know, even the little old lady next door might be the next trend setter. The way trends are set is […]
Many poets and teachers of poetry have proposed definitions, philosophical and logical, for the many-faceted poem. In the modern age, a poem can be as short as two lines, as prosaic as a paragraph, and as grammatical as, well, read a poem by E. E. Cummings for an example. Poetry […]
“By the old stone step and the sagging sill The hopes of youth are lingering still, And I shall find when that step is crossed A secret of peace that the world has lost.” ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Blythes are Quoted (“Come, Let Us Go”) The school year may […]
When talking about the recent addition of “yeet” to Dictionary.com, along with a variety of COVID related words, the Gizmo writer, Judy Serrano, said that “English is a living language, one that is constantly changing to reflect the world and society we live in.” The truth of the statement applies […]