Art bridges cultures... Art museums often lend each other masterpieces. This year, however, marked a first -- a large-scale show by a major Western museum in Iran! The world's largest museum, the Louvre, proudly calls it, “…an outstanding cultural and diplomatic event for both countries.” The Louvre contributed fifty masterpieces for "The Louvre at Tehran" to celebrate… Continue reading Part 1: The Louvre visits Tehran→
Most of the week, fellow blogger Roijoyeux blogs on heroic people bullied for being gay or bisexual. Sundays he reserves to torture us with photos and recipes from his latest mouthwatering healthy/delicious yummy. Another awesomeness about his site is that if you don’t read French, he’s installed a google translate widget…
Pour mon cher ami Tauche et son mari, je réalise presque chaque semaine des gâteaux à la fois sains et gourmands et j’ai décidé de vous faire profiter, joyeux visiteurs, de mes plus belles réussites…
Cette semaine, j’ai eu envie de tester la recette de muffins aux pépites de chocolat inscrite au dos des paquets de pépites de chocolat “Vahiné”, en l’adaptant pour mes amis; Tauche souhaitait un gâteau à la banane, il me restait un sachet de noisettes en poudre, voici donc les :
Ingrédients : (pour 9 muffins de diamètre 6 cm)
125 g de farine de riz + 50 g de farine de sarrasin + 75 g de poudre de noisettes (au lieu de 250 g de farine)
1/2 c à c bicarbonate (au lieu de 1 sachet de levure chimique)
Getting letters and postcards in the mail is a joy! When I was a kid, I even loved getting junk mail! Years ago, a friend told me that only handwritten could suffice for thank you notes, never email. I try to follow her advice as often as I can.
How about you? Do you write and/or receive handwritten mail?
Fellow blogger Nadya Irsalina inspires me to take it to a new level…
I’ve always been interested to send letters since I was a kid. The curiousity grew from seeing rubik sabahat pena (penpals) on Bobo, a kid’s magazine that my mother bought for me. But I had to wait until I was in junior high school to actually start sending letters. I don’t know about you but finding a new letter on the mailbox is like a nice little surprise for me. Nothing beats the thrill of opening the mailbox and finding a letter, written and addressed just for me. I still remember when my dad’s friend sent a postcard from LA and I was so excited to read it and removed the stamp. I used to collect it, even though I wasn’t really a philately. To me, it’s quite saddening that years after that, letters carried by conventional postal service seemed to be left behind and replaced with modern technology like…
Bravo to fine artist Connie DK Lane for her "Bravura" art show! (Video included at the end of this post.) The opening reception took place outdoors on a sunny breezy afternoon. Special thanks to the gallery director/curator James MacDevitt, Brian Temp, and Sean Yang. Artist, audience, models, and employees socialized and feasted on goodies. An hour… Continue reading Video: I’m in Connie DK Lane’s Art Installation→
After a weekend in Barcelona, my husband and I rented a car. I love Spain (hence, my upcoming novel is called, "Flamenco & the Sitting Cat") so we had much to admire along the way to French Basque country. We stopped for lunch in Spain's lovely city of Huesca. Their beautiful cathedral is in the historic… Continue reading Wonderful Huesca, Spain by da-AL→
Ingrédients : (pour 9 muffins de diamètre 6 cm)
