Quotable Quotes from Downton Abbey Season 3
These are some of my favourite lines from Season 3. They remind me of why I enjoy Downton Abbey in …
Category Archives: writing
Saturday Snapshot Nov.10: A New Gravatar
After a few years of using the blue ripples as my Gravatar, recently I’ve created a new one. It combines …
Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden
This is my first selection for the 2012 Ireland Challenge at Books and Movies. Thanks to Litlove and Rebecca for the …
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: Who can know it?” Jeremiah 17: 9, The King James …
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
While reading van Gogh’s letters is a fascinating journey into the mind of the artist, it is also poignantly heartbreaking. This …
A Moveable Feast (Restored Edition) by Ernest Hemingway
Reading A Moveable Feast is like walking along the sea shore. On the fine sandy beach you see many attractive …
The Tranquil Side of Vancouver
I’m not a hockey fan. I go to Vancouver mainly for the tranquility of forests, gardens and greenery. There are …
Which Jane Austen Heroine Was Jane Most Like?
A while ago due to a glitch on my blog, I lost all the visual images on my side bar, …
Of Words and Spring
April is the month of empty dreams Half the days gone waiting for words and spring still frozen ground and …
Forget About Tiger Mothering, Try Inspirational Parenting
One of the most memorable lines in last week’s Academy Awards is Tom Hooper’s: “The moral of the story is: …
The King’s Speech: Fact and Fiction
The line “Based On a True Story” at the bottom of the movie poster apparently is not enough as a …
Somewhere (2010)… or Nowhere
I collected a few thoughts on screenwriting, or fiction writing in general, from watching Sofia Coppola’s “Somewhere” (2010). The film …
