Tag: History Lesson

Halloween Haunts: The Headless Horseman

I love October guys. It’s such a perfectly spooky time of year, with foggy mornings, crisp evenings, and all the leaves turn orange. The smell of wood smoke and apple crisp… it’s truly my favorite time of year. I do recognize some morbid irony in the fact that as the leaves are dying, I feel my most alive. Every year in October, I do a quick piece about a famous Halloween-esque figure. In previous years, I’ve used this time to talk about Mary Shelley, the legend of Dracula, and Stephen King… this year, I want to look at the Headless […]

Posted October 11, 2019 in Bookish Things // 3 Comments //

If You Haven’t Heard of Treasure Binding, It’s Beautiful

Did you know that book covers as we know them didn’t exist before the 19th century? As far back as the Middle Ages (1100 – 1453), books were largely religious artifacts. Paper was precious, and as with most of history, spirituality influenced so many aspects of culture. In medieval Europe, only about 10% of men and 1% of women were literate. There were no need for books in the average home, so most of these remained relics of the Church. Don’t worry, I’m not going to go into a whole ramble about literacy and the history of books in general […]

Posted June 28, 2019 in Memes // 2 Comments //

The Ancient City of Tulum (Caribbean Cruise 4/4)

The final leg of our Caribbean cruise adventure landed the Carnival Horizon at the port of Cozumel. My husband was looking forward to the Cozumel stop, because he’d been there before. The night before, he animatedly told me, “Make sure your camera is ready! Cozumel is a beautiful port!” It had been about ten years since he had last been to Cozumel, and he was excited to see it again. But, we never went to Cozumel, although the ship docked there. Instead, we boarded a water taxi that took us across to Playa de Carmen. Playa de Carmen was still […]

Posted April 13, 2019 in Real World // 0 Comments //

A Very Brief History of the Horror Genre

One of my best friends loves horror. Every Halloween, he likes to dress up as Michael Myers from the Halloween movie. When he does this, he’s totally in character and creepy. You can’t ask the guy where the extra bags of candy are because he just stares at you behind that creepy mask and says… nothing… ever. Until Halloween is over. I haven’t seen him dress up in a couple years (I believe his four-year-old is not crazy about the costume, and she’s daddy’s girl), but when I think of horror, I always think of him. Universally, I think a few things come to […]

Posted October 5, 2018 in Memes // 7 Comments //

Transatlantic Cruise: Portland and Winchester (5/8)

Happy Saturday everyone! I hope wherever you are, the skies are blue and the birds are singing and your heart is filled with monuments joy! Today brings us to the fifth installment of my Transatlantic Cruise series, wherein I share all my adventures from my trip, including pictures! These posts all stand alone and are about the places I visited, but if you’d like to read some of these others, please do! Our third port of call was Portland, England! Portland is actually an island, located in the English channel. Chesil Beach joins it to mainland England, and our tour […]

Posted June 2, 2018 in Real World // 4 Comments //

Transatlantic Cruise: Ireland (4/8)

This week in checking in about my glorious two week Transatlantic Cruise, I’m going to talk about our stop in Ireland! For those of you just now joining us – hi! I went on a cruise from NYC to western Europe in April and I’m sharing my adventures and some pictures, too! These posts all standalone, but if you want to hear about other days and other adventures, do check out the Transatlantic Cruise 2018 tag! So this week is Ireland, and Ireland requires a bit of backstory for me. Ireland has been at the top of my bucket list […]

Posted May 26, 2018 in Real World // 7 Comments //