(Thanks to Tracy Barrett for this one!)And for our soggy friends in the N.E.: … [Read more...] about Friday Funnies–Ancient Style!
Friday Funnies–Classical Style!
Monks on MeadOdysseus's Environmental AwakeningCupid's Bummer Boss … [Read more...] about Friday Funnies–Classical Style!
Donna Jo Napoli, SCBWI WIK Conference, Crystal Kite and School Visits
Last Friday, I attended the writing intensive at the Southern-Breeze SCBWI conference with Donna Jo Napoli. In addition to publishing dozens of books, she is also a linguist from Harvard and a mathematician from MIT. Serious chops.Anyway, I mentioned to her that I particularly love her YA novel, BEAST, which is a retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story. The "Beast" is a … [Read more...] about Donna Jo Napoli, SCBWI WIK Conference, Crystal Kite and School Visits
Friday Funnies–Classical Style!
(Not historical, I know, but I couldn't resist....) … [Read more...] about Friday Funnies–Classical Style!
The Ancient Lure of Pretty Perfumes
Cupid hovers over Psyche like a perfume hawker at a department store.I love this fresco of Psyche sniffing her wrist as she tests a new perfume cupid has brought her (from Pompeii at the Getty Villa).How charming is it? And how still true. After all, what woman hasn't dabbed a pretty scent on her wrist and sniffed?Perfumes were big business in the ancient world. When I … [Read more...] about The Ancient Lure of Pretty Perfumes