Band of Wild Petticoats

"Landscape with the Temptation of Christ," Pieter Bruegel the Elder; mid-18th century Yesterday's post described the ...

One of the books on my  Five For Fourteen  list was the early 18th-century story attributed to Antônio José da Silva, "The Jew." T...

I am really looking forward to a new year of books! Here is a list of five books I'm especially excited to read in 2014... 5. The Bake...

Coffee and Vitamin C for fall mornings My petticoats have been silent for a month! You must've begun thinking that I got too carri...

Antonio Conselheiro {Anthony the Councelor}  Still from film about Antonio Conselheiro.  Image Source This summer, I read  Euclides d...

Ariano Suassuna You guys. I think I'm in love.  This is Ariano Suassuna , a living playwright from João Pessoa, Paraíba in Bra...

Dancing and screaming, they bring the bull back to life... The brief time I spent in Maranhão was packed full of incredible cultural f...

Being a tourist in Brazil was a phenomenal experience. Being a graduate student at an academic conference on social and environmental poli...