October 2010

"Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up." -Nina Garcia, Fashion Editor of Marie Claire as quoted in the New York Times

Eating and Drinking The region that is home to Florence has one of the most versatile and varied-form cooking traditions in Italy, that we have already mentioned in our tourists’…

"October 8th, 1871. On this day in 1871, flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, gniting a 2-day blaze that kills between 200 and 300 people,…

Incendiary by Vernon Scannell That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese And burnt-out little eyes could make a blaze As brazen, fierce and huge, as red and…

"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own." -Arthur Schopenhauer