Today has started off real well ( Read more... )

-The Basics ( Read more... )

A while back I remember I was trying to explain to William the Younger what Baroque art is. I found a fantastic example of a Baroque portrait - and it just so happens to be one of "my people" from the Catholic Reformation.


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Clearly my obsessions have not gone away ( Read more... )

I haven't typed anything here since September. I suppose I am doing this to do something different, even if just for a few minutes ( Read more... )

I took a drive to Gordon-Conwell today to drop my stuff off. I got the keys to my room and then went to buy my books. This will be a great semester ( Read more... )

It is too bad that I have saved my site here with Ambrose in it. The same thing goes with my screen name that I rarely ever use with AOL IM. Like the sun setting on the British Empire, so has my fascination with the "honey-tongued doctor" from Milan. Let me explain ( Read more... )

Can you believe it? The sands of time continue to trickle as time carries on. I drove by Fox Hall at UMASS Lowell the other day and saw some of the first students unpacking their stuff into their dorms. It is something to think that I graduated from UMASS Lowell well over a year ago and this will be my second academic year not there ( Read more... )

Some people perhaps don't understand. I am still processing everything that I saw in Italy back in August. That country and what it has there has almost become a part of me. I have caught the fever. As I have continued to research on what I found and took pictures of, one "item" has been a mystery to me: a corpse in a church in Venice ( Read more... )

Your Heart Is Green
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