For an update on what a Mise Tale is then please see Mise Tales One.
A beautiful view of the Nazare lighthouse at Praia do Norte outside the Portuguese fishing village of Nazare, Portugal. It is back dropped by what may be the world’s highest surfing wave.Article and photos on the National Post Sports page.
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Three Skeleton Key is a one act play I have never heard about before today. It was written as a short story by George G. Toudouze and was first published in 1937 in English.
This is a short story about three men who operate a lighthouse miles offshore of the South American coast. They love their job untill one day a strange ship arrives. Suddenly they are unsure if they will survive to see the next day.
Setting
This story is set on a “key” or small island several miles offshore of French Guianna in the early 1900s. Lighthouse operators whould spend months at a time isolated out on their tiny islands without any contact with the rest of the world. Continue reading Three Skeleton Key – A Lighthouse Play
You know those email jokes that go around saying things like:
“How Old is Grandpa?“
And Grandpa replies, “I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots,
frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees, and the pill. There were no credit cards, laser beams, or ball-point pens.
Man had not invented pantyhose, air conditioners, dishwashers, or clothes dryers, and man hadn’t yet walked on the moon, etc. . . .”
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Now let’s switch to an isolated lighthouse in the 1970s, 1980s, etc. . . . and a different question:
Don’t you get bored? Continue reading Don’t You Get Bored?
