Olga Vannucci's Blog: Travels With George
January 1, 2022
January
In with the new year, out with the old.
The days are longer but it's still cold.
The days are longer but it's still cold.
March 21, 2020
Limericks in the time of corona
There once was a virus, corona,
That ravaged Savona and Pamplona,
'Til I don't know who
Said that what we should do
Is sing. Then we're never alone-a.
Italian version, not a thing in Italian, might be first Italian limerick:
C'era un virus di nome corona,
Che nocque a Pamplona e a Savona.
Ma poi qualcuno
Disse: nessuno
E' solo se canta al balcone.
That ravaged Savona and Pamplona,
'Til I don't know who
Said that what we should do
Is sing. Then we're never alone-a.
Italian version, not a thing in Italian, might be first Italian limerick:
C'era un virus di nome corona,
Che nocque a Pamplona e a Savona.
Ma poi qualcuno
Disse: nessuno
E' solo se canta al balcone.
May 3, 2019
You're too good
I went to write a list for you
Of your good qualities, in rhyme.
Turns out it's just too long to do,
I didn't have the time.
Of your good qualities, in rhyme.
Turns out it's just too long to do,
I didn't have the time.
December 25, 2016
No New Year's Resolution
I do not target any number
For how many books to read.
I read because it's fun for me,
I do not read for speed.
For how many books to read.
I read because it's fun for me,
I do not read for speed.
September 12, 2016
8 great books about hardworking writers
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life, by Sandra Cisneros
Reporting Always: Writings from The New Yorker, by Lillian Ross
On the Move: A Life, by Oliver Sacks
The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic, by Ginger Strand
Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson, by Juan F. Thompson
My Lost City: Personal Essays 1920-40, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Theodor Seuss Geisel, by Donald E. Pease
The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong, by David Orr
Reporting Always: Writings from The New Yorker, by Lillian Ross
On the Move: A Life, by Oliver Sacks
The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic, by Ginger Strand
Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson, by Juan F. Thompson
My Lost City: Personal Essays 1920-40, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Theodor Seuss Geisel, by Donald E. Pease
The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong, by David Orr
July 8, 2016
8 great books about unusual parenting
Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson, by Juan F. Thompson
A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me, by Jason Schmidt
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, by Alexandra Fuller
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
Fault Lines, by David Pryce-Jones
1185 Park Avenue, by Anne Roiphe
The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery, by Catherine Bailey
How To Catch a Frog and other stories of family, love, dysfunction, survival, and DIY, by Heather Ross
A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me, by Jason Schmidt
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, by Alexandra Fuller
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
Fault Lines, by David Pryce-Jones
1185 Park Avenue, by Anne Roiphe
The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery, by Catherine Bailey
How To Catch a Frog and other stories of family, love, dysfunction, survival, and DIY, by Heather Ross
June 25, 2016
May 14, 2016
Dandeliony
Beware the dandelion, son,
the blooms that burst, the seeds that spread.
But, mom, I love the yellow one,
the bursts so bright, the fuzzy heads.
the blooms that burst, the seeds that spread.
But, mom, I love the yellow one,
the bursts so bright, the fuzzy heads.
April 22, 2016
8 great books about Britain and the British
The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood, by Kathryn Aalto
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert, by Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell (Editor)
The Surprising Life of Constance Spry, by Sue Shephard
As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War, by Emma Smith
Fault Lines, by David Pryce-Jones
Black Diamonds: The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England, by Catherine Bailey
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue, by Piu Marie Eatwell
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, by Simon Winchester
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert, by Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell (Editor)
The Surprising Life of Constance Spry, by Sue Shephard
As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War, by Emma Smith
Fault Lines, by David Pryce-Jones
Black Diamonds: The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England, by Catherine Bailey
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue, by Piu Marie Eatwell
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, by Simon Winchester
January 1, 2016
Knitting rhyme
I knit myself sweaters
When my knitting was better.
Now I can't bother,
I knit scarves for others.
When my knitting was better.
Now I can't bother,
I knit scarves for others.
