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The date is December 4th, Wednesday, and today I’m traveling from Auckland, New Zealand to Los Angeles, California and then Los Angeles, CA to Portland, OR. Phew.
This week I’ll be on hiatus, check out Monday’s episode, December 2nd for the whole scoop!
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll
The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright—
And ...
Hiatus Week Day 2: A belated autumnal poem to explain the Indian Summer phenomenon.
The date is December 3rd, Tuesday, and today I’m coming to you from Auckland, New Zealand.
This week I’ll be on hiatus, check out Monday’s episode, December 2nd for the whole scoop!
Legend of The Indian Summer
Kate Harrington
I have learned a simple legend,
Never found in books of lore,
Copied not from old tradition,
Nor from classics read o...
The date is December 2nd, Monday, and today I’m traveling from Port Vila, Vanuatu to Auckland, New Zealand.
This week I’ll be on hiatus, which may sound ridiculous considering the number of episodes I have to catch up on, but if you then consider that each episode takes me about 3 hours from research to writing to publication, I need time, that with working, I don’t always have.
So this hiatus week will be a recurring thi...
The date is November 29th, Friday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu.
And today is the birthday of Louisa May Alcott, American writer.
Louisa May was born to a small family in 1832 in what is now Philadelphia, PA. They didn’t stay long there. The family would move to Boston shortly following Dad’s dream of founding a Transcendentalist school. The family would move 22 times in 30 years, mostly in and aro...
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The date is November 28th, Thursday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Today is Thanksgiving in America. It is a time for families and friends gather together to share a meal and spend the day reflecting on all the wonderful things, tangible and intangible, that have come our way over the past year.
So today I will just share a poem :)
Thanksgiving
Ella Wheeler Wi...
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The date is November 27th, Wednesday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Today is the birthday of Fanny Kemble, British actress and writer.
Fanny was born to an acting dynasty in 1809 and as such received her education in Paris in music and theater as a child, branching out to study literature and poetry in her teen years.
She returned to London and set to w...
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Charles Schulz basically made a killing with Peanuts! A fiercely independent American surgeon shares a birthday with the cartoonist. Poem by Lewis Carroll.
The date is November 26th, Tuesday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Today is the birthday of Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist.
Charles Schulz had been working on his Li’l Folks cartoon for a few y...
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The date is November 25th, Monday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu.
On this day in 1947, Hollywood studios in Los Angeles California instituted the first blacklist. Ten writers and directors under suspicion of communist sympathies were all fired from their respective posts and movie and TV studios were instructed not to hire them. The Hollywood Ten as they are known were re...
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The date is November 22nd, Friday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu.
On this day in 1995, Toy Story premiered in theaters.
Toy Story was the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery. It took around 5 years and $30 million to make. It was a worthy investment as Toy Story grossed nearly $380 million at the box office worldwide,...
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The date is November 21st, Thursday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Today is the birthday of Catharina Questiers, Dutch writer.
Catharina was born in 1631 in Amsterdam where she lived her whole life. She focused her efforts on plays and poetry and is speculated to be the youngest person to write Dutch plays and have them professionally produced.
Catharin...
The date is November 20th, Wednesday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Today’s episode is brought to you by the generous, the warm-hearted, the green-thumbed Candy P. or Oregon.
Today is the birthday of Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer.
Lagerlöf was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the award in 1909 at the age of 51 “in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination a...
The date is November 19th, Tuesday, and today I’m coming to you from Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Today is the birthday of Hiram Bingham III, American professor and explorer.
Born in Hawaii to arguably successful missionaries, Hiram Bingham III would hold on to his father’s work ethic and adventurous spirit, though he would not be quite so pious or humble.
In fact, It was Hiram Bingham III who felt that, “If a man were going to wo...
The date is November 1st, Friday, and today I’m coming to you from Sydney, Australia.
On this day in 1955, the Vietnam War began. It would last 19 years and be a massive stain in the history of American international affairs. It is also known in some parts of Vietnam as the War of American Aggression or simply the American War. History books may call it the Second Indochina War.
The fight over Vietnam started earlier wit...
The date is October 31st, Thursday, and today I’m traveling from Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon in Vietnam to Sydney, Australia.
Today is Halloween for most of the globe. Halloween is typically celebrated with costume dressing, trick-or-treating, carving pumpkins, bobbing for apples and general mischief.
Many people believe that Halloween traditions have sprouted out of a Christian festival, but its true roots are not that simp...
The date is Wednesday, October 30th, and today I’m coming to you from Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon in Vietnam.
Today is the birthday of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American writer.
Elizabeth grew up in Springfield, Kentucky in the late 1800s. She attended the University of Kentucky briefly, dropping out on account of poor health. Roberts was gravely disappointed as she wholeheartedly enjoyed literature and philosophy. She moved ...
The biggest (most priceless) jewel heist happens at the American Museum of Natural History. It’s arguably also the easiest. Poem by Robert Frost.
The date is October 29th, Tuesday, and today I’m coming to you from Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon in Vietnam.
On this day in 1964, the biggest jewelry heist in history took place at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Notable gems stolen included the 563-carat sap...
The date is Monday, October 28th, and today I’m traveling from Vung Tau to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.
Today is the birthday of Edith Head, American costume designer. Prolific from the 1940s through the 1970s, Edith was nominated for 35 Academy Awards, and won 8, a record that has yet to be topped.
Costume design was actually Edith’s second career. She received a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in French from UC Berkel...
The date is September 10th, Tuesday, and today I’m coming to you from Tejakula, Bali. Today is also our 100th episode!
On this day in 1960, Abebe Bikila became the first sub-Saharan African to win an Olympic gold medal, and the first Ethiopian gold medalist.
It was the Summer Olympics in Rome and Abebe Bikila had just bought a new pair of shoes a week earlier for the marathon. The shoes, to his disappointment gave him awfu...
The date is September 9th, Monday, and today I’m coming to you from Tejakula, Bali.
Today is the birthday of Colonel Harland David Sanders, American businessman, founder of KFC.
Sanders was born in 1890 in southern Indiana, not far from the Indiana-Kentucky state line. His mother was a devout Christian and it was perhaps her warnings about the evils of drink that led Sanders to be vehemently against alcohol consumption hi...
The date is September 6th, Friday, and today I’m coming to you from Tejakula, Bali in Indonesia.
Today is the birthday of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French military leader and political influencer. Lafayette, as he is known in the States, was instrumental in the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution both in the second half of the 1700s.
The first part of Lafayette’s life was of true comfort. ...
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