Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
We ate a wide variety of food while in Valencia and it started out with the first night we arrived. After a long flight, a missed train, customer service, a high speed rail line, and a long walk with suitcases we needed food. My little sis looked up anywhere near to our hotel and found
If you have been following this blog for any amount of time, you have probably figured out that I love market. Local markets have the best spices, produce, oils, and meats among so many other delicious things like fresh baked pastries. The Ruzafa Market (or Russafa) was in the same neighborhood as our hotel. If
Title: The CartographersAuthor: Peng ShepherdPublication Date: 2022Publishing House: William Morrow This book is one that caught my eye at random at the library and it had me hooked. Support your local library and read what makes you happy. Synopsis: What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young’s whole life and greatest passion is cartography.
Earlier this year we had the opportunity to visit Spain where my youngest sister was studying for the semester. Valencia was not a city that was even on my radar or places to visit but I am so glad that we visited her while she was there. This coastal Spanish city is beautiful: full of
Title: Tress of the Emerald SeaAuthor: Brandon SandersonPublication Date: 2023Publishing House: Dragonsteel Entertainment If you have been following this blog for a while you know that I fell in love with the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. When I heard that he was publishing some standalone novels in The Cosmere, this is the shared universe
The prompt for the week I wrote this piece was exploring different types of Irony. I will admit, it had been a busy week and I took the easy way out and wrote a story for verbal irony (sarcasm). There are some that will argue that sarcasm is not actually a form of irony. To
I posted the first part of this story last week and it can be read here. But I wanted to talk a little bit about Amache after the people incarcerated there had left. The buildings that were built in the 1940’s are no longer there. The buildings that have been added since Amache became a
Title: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other StoriesAuthor: Susanna ClarkePublication Date: 2006Publishing House: Bloomsbury USA I recently read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and I was excited to see that the library had this book by her as well. Synopsis: Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics’ favorite “Jonathan Strange & Mr
A couple of years ago I had a squash plant and was able to get a handful of squash blossoms to eat. I tried to get some blossoms from the plants I had in the garden last year but something killed my plants. This year, until my own plants starts producing I was lucky enough
I want to preface this post by noting that this is a topic that is not discussed enough. I don’t remember learning much about Japanese Interment Camps in school. I had to talk to the special collections librarian at my local library to find local information. These pictures are very pretty and now the landscape
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