Author: TaylorD
Bologna, I Hardly Knew Ye
Out of the many wonderful places we've visited, Bologna may have been my favorite. Though we were not there long the atmosphere of the city had me wishing that there were another day or two allotted to staying there. The hotel accommodations were...
The Kindness of Strangers
In America we are accustomed to a certain degree of convenience. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the food industry where Americans expect to be able to eat 24/7 and especially late at night. However this is not the case in Europe,...
On Roma
by Patrick Freed NOT Taylor D Upon reading Calvino's essay "On Lightness," initially I was very underwhelmed and thought that what he had written was an obvious matter. I thought that he was simply talking about maintaining balance in the pursuit of life. Due to...
The Suffering of Michelangelo
Heralded as one of the greatest artists of the High Renaissance, and even the archetypal "Renaissance Man," (a distinction shared with rival Da Vinci), Michelangelo went to great lengths to create the frescoes seen today on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo...