The Singing in the Wood

Depart for London: August 31 Arrive in London: September 1 Depart for Rome: September 7 Arrive in Rome: September...

     In just over a week now, I'll be leaving the USA for London along with a group of fellow student travelers from Marylhurst Unive...

      I have really enjoyed the opportunity to read  Anthony Doerr 's Four Seasons in Rome this term.  If Robert Hughes' book...

Full many a host in line of battle rang'd My eyes have seen; but such a force as this, So mighty and so vast, I ne'er beheld: In...

      Early Christianity under Roman rule suffered unspeakable cruelties and acts of barbarism by the Roman authorities.  In order to unde...

"Italy Sulmona view of the Roman aqueduct with the Del Vecchio fountain in the foreground"       In the fourth chapter of ...

     In the prologue of Robert Hughes' book on Rome, he quotes the opening lines from Octavio Paz's poem entitled "Piedra de...