Category: humor

humor Russian literature

Trivia quiz for Nikolai Gogol, “Dead Souls”

Post author By Julia Douthwaite Viglione
Post date May 21, 2023

This post is for subscribers

Tags answers, class conflict, Dead Souls, free, fun, Nikolai Gogol, Russian history, Seattle, the journey, trivia quiz, West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club

conflict creativity death humor Russian literature

Trivia Quiz for “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov

Post author By Julia Douthwaite Viglione
Post date January 22, 2023

This post is for subscribers

Tags answers, cats, fun, Seattle, Terror, trivia quiz, West Seattle, West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club

Honey Girl Books and Gifts humor meditation retirement wisdom work

a zinger about ambition, from Seneca (ca. 4 BC-AD 65)

Post author By Julia Douthwaite Viglione
Post date October 3, 2022

This post is for subscribers

Tags ambition, conflict, contentment, Etsy, Honey Girl Books and Gifts, humanity, humor, money, Seneca, stoicism

cats humor wisdom Zen philosophy

Trivia Quiz for “I Am a Cat” by Sōseki Natsume (1906)

Post author By Julia Douthwaite Viglione
Post date August 29, 2022

This post is for subscribers

Tags answers, fun, Japanese literature, trivia quiz, West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club

American literature art children creativity French literature humor music nature quilts

Only a real idiot can have this much fun! (homage to Julio Cortázar)

Post author By Julia Douthwaite Viglione
Post date July 6, 2022

This post is for subscribers

Tags Argentinian literature, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds, enthusiasm, for sale, fun, Honey Girl Books and Gifts, inspiration, Julio Cortázar, Luxury Troll Boudoirs, Seattle, summerfest 2022, West Seattle

French literature humor wisdom

Trivia Quiz for “Père Goriot” (1835) by Honoré de Balzac

Post author By Julia Douthwaite Viglione
Post date June 29, 2022

This post is for subscribers

Tags answers, Balzac, Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot, quiz, trivia quiz, West Seattle, West Seattle Classic Novels (and Movies) book club

art generosity happiness humor nature wisdom

day 71, laugh with the kookaburra!

Post author By Julia Douthwaite Viglione
Post date May 29, 2020

This post is for subscribers

Tags Australia, Brisbane, coronavirus, Dr. Farvardin Daliri, face masks, gratitude, inspiration, kookaburra, laughter, quarantine, smile

happiness humor wisdom

day 69: smile under that mask: it shows!

Post author By Julia Douthwaite Viglione
Post date May 27, 2020

Women wearing protective facemasks walk on a street in Bangkok on February 3, 2020. - Thailand so far has detected 19 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus believed to have originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, which is under lockdown. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP) (Photo by MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images)

This post is for subscribers

Tags communicate, coronavirus, face masks, help, Honey Girl Books and Gifts, kindness, psychology, smile, society

American literature art creativity death humor

Day 56, it’s painful, but it’s ours

Post author By Julia Douthwaite Viglione
Post date May 14, 2020

This post is for subscribers

Tags coronavirus, Dorothy Parker, face masks, funny, hope, hopelessness, life, poetry, Resume, suicide prevention

art humor nature

day 51, dazed and dazzled

Post author By Julia Douthwaite Viglione
Post date May 9, 2020

This post is for subscribers

Tags beauty, Cascade mountains, confusion, coronavirus, face masks, Peter Gerety, Seattle, Sneaky Pete, TV, West Seattle