(But first: Calgary congratulations to my cousins V and M on their lovely wedding this weekend, and a beautiful Berlin birthday to my littlest cousin. Many happy returns for all of you!) Me? Revising right now? Hahaha, why would you think that? No, I totally decided to make this list…
Quick question: what do Harry Potter, Batman, Cinderella, and Oliver Twist have in common? Hopefully, you answered something like this: their parents are deeeaaaaad! Family, dead or otherwise, often plays a role in main characters’ fictional lives.
Dear blog, I’m sorry I’ve been away these past two weeks. It’s not that I didn’t want to pay attention to you, it’s just that I was a bit pre-occupied with re-locating all my worldly possessions 6km away from their original positions. But things are better now, and, like Joseph Campbell’s Hero With a…