Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Birthday blessings to my beautiful wife Sydjia! The picture on the left was taken on a chilly Thanksgiving weekend day in Florida in 2010, shortly after we started dating. The one on the right was taken earlier this year on … Continue reading →

Update (12/31): To supplement the original music video (posted above) of the catchy K-pop ballad “We Go” by the South Korean girl group fromis_9, the video below presents a color-coded guide showing which girl is singing which part of the … Continue reading →

Feliz Navidad! Listed below are some of the works that I am reading this holiday season, in alphabetical order by title: 1. A book I bought at “Books & Books” in Key West, Florida: Adios Hemingway by Leonardo Padura Fuentes … Continue reading →

To celebrate Christmas Eve or Nochebuena, below is a reproduction of a painting by El Greco (the Nativity).

On this day (22 December) in 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason by a military court-martial in France. In the words of one commentator (see here), “The Dreyfus affair is an extraordinary tale of injustice, deceit, and … Continue reading →

On this day (21 December) in 1913, the now-defunct New York World published the first “word-cross” puzzle. That particular puzzle, which is pictured below, was created by one Arthur Wynne (see here and here), and according to Wikipedia, an illustrator … Continue reading →

Would the world be a better place without the Internet? Or at the very least, what if we all voluntarily refrained from using the Internet during the holidays?