For me, 2018 has been a year of continued personal growth and the creation of incredible new chapters in life. My thirst for knowledge and cultural experiences continues unabated. Six months [...]
Rare books have an image problem. To the unfamiliar, they seem to have the epithet of ‘boring’. Musings begin with something like: “It’s a book that is, well, old. I can buy a new copy from [...]
Dante Alighieri. His poetic masterpiece The Divine Comedy has enraptured scholars and the literati for centuries. His depictions of Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Heaven (Paradiso) [...]
Hans Christian Andersen once said, “Where words fail, music speaks.”. For those who have classical music fused into their everyday lives, it is hard to imagine a life without its [...]