The Pericles Commission

More series' of historical mysteries
Democracy's founder: Ephialtes
his murder retold
a theory proposed
An enjoyable leap back through history

The Island at the Center of the World

A notion, often thought extreme
Yet recurring wherever man schemed
Named and made formal
It now seems so normal
Liberty: The American Dream

Words in battle

I attended my first ever word battle this weekend. That's not what it is called, I believe it is Write Club?

In any case, props must be given for creativity.

• Circle of Life outweighed by I walk the Line
• A journey to Squareland
• A treatise on eating children for a good cause
• And a thousand and one nights

Murder in Macedon

Here's a resolution for you: I will review all the books I read with limericks.

Here is Ana Apostolou's Murder in Macedon, a light hearted murder mystery in the kingdom of Philip II of Macedon.

The ancient whodunit we knew
the setting and people all true
A hypothesis is served
For what may have occurred
In the death of the Philip no. II

Meet Your Opponent

Powerball update

We did not win.

PowerBall planning

My lovely significant other caved and donated $2 to the crowd tax of lottery tickets.

So, here we are, awaiting the number extraction tonight. And what would I do with the biggest lottery payout in US history?

1 - upgrade our health insurance plan to silver
2 - set aside a couple of hundred to take my husband on a shopping spree (I can do it, I'm the master of bargain shopping). 
3 - invest the rest in a retirement savings fund.
4 - continue life as before.

Ok one caveat: time permitting all around, I would jump on a plane for a 1 week visit to the Taiwan family branch.

Bocce victory

First one in two seasons thanks in part to this beautiful 4-point round.

Cultural weekend, family legacies

Inherited talent, father & son, senior and junior, Strauss' and Creeds.

As in Johann and Apollo/Adonis.

Saturday, via the High Museum, an organ concert at the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta with organ master Jens Korndoerfer. I had never been to an organ concert, to the best of my memory.

Giuseppe now has a great desire to be an organ master's assistants to get to pull buttons all day.

The concert was rather wonderful and ended with well-received crowd pleasers by the Strauss father and son team. In any case note: the Radetzky March is constant joy.

And Sunday we got to celebrate another famed and loved father-son duo: the Creeds. Thank you Ryan Coogler for continuing a legacy that will never get old and will entertain me forever. Brilliant work of course Sly and Michael B. Jordan.

Executive Power is all well and good

as long as you agree with the decision being made.

Just saying.

Semi-Conductor

Picture of Pater ready to conduct the orchestra = 3 new follows from fashion accounts on Instagram

The Hateful Eight

No story spoiler alerts, suffice it to say: nothing new.