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Healing Nicely
A lot of you knew I had a rather long surgery a few days ago. I’m fine from it, but recovery will be long and annoying. Still, this is how I’m looking these days. Yes, I need a shave, and I look like a combination between Grizzly Adams and Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. Yuck. Anyway, all’s [...]
Christmas 2011
It’s been a tradition of mine to give my friends a Christmas blessing on the blog, or via e-mail, and this year will be no exception. The benediction will be short, however, as I have to be honest and say that my heart isn’t fully in the Christmas spirit this year. The year was a [...]
Sergo
I travel a lot, and will probably spend the rest of my life doing so, barring some lovely woman saddling me down with children and whatnot. During most of December of this year, I spent a good deal of time in airports, visiting as many as three a day. On December 5, I had a [...]
A World of Gifts
Yesterday was absolutely wonderful. Though I am half a world away from my family, I managed to spend time with them on Skype, and it was a joy seeing everyone for the first time in months in some cases. I felt that there was much to be thankful for. Rich Lowry of National Review continues [...]
Psalm 100 / Happy Thanksgiving!
To my family, friends and readers, I wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families. It is my hope to celebrate with everyone, at least in spirit. As we spend this day giving thanks for the blessings we all have had this past year, spend a bit of time contemplating Psalm 100 today: 1 [...]
Welcome to RudyCarrera.com!
Welcome to my homepage! This website is my curriculum vitae, my résumé and hub where I direct people to my other work sites. I am a teacher and lecturer of English as a Second Language, Music Appreciation, Philosophy of Religion and History, specializing in Central and Eastern European History and Central Asian History, have a [...]
My Scratchpad
Ritchie Valens — Donna - 1958
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles (via missfolly)
Such a great movie.
(via theredshoes)
by Evgeniya Reva-Slezinger
The Wise and Foolish Virgins, by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
The Third Man (1949), by Orson Welles
