Category Archives: Holiday Specials

In this day and age, it is reasonable to not necessarily anticipate what everyone knows or remembers why around early October there may be a day off school for the children or some sort of sale at the malls, but … Continue reading →

Patrick Süskind gave us more than an excellent novel and, consequently, movie with Perfume, he accessed the our imagination and association with the great olfactory sensation. The aroma of a delicious perfume is absolutely intoxicating, it takes our breath away. … Continue reading →

If you happen to know (or be) a creative individual, you may be familiar with that prideful exuberance that comes with your work. And the desire to capture it. For some, it is manifested in taking a photograph of a … Continue reading →

Mother’s Day is coming, and flowers are a popular gift, so this seems like the appropriate time to talk about the traditional language of roses. For Mother’s Day, in the South, it is traditional to wear red roses on Mother’s … Continue reading →

Mother’s Day in America didn’t begin as a commercial holiday, but rather a call for peace and women’s activism. In 1870, horrified by the human devastation of the Civil War, Julia Ward Howe, the author of “The Battle Hymn of … Continue reading →