Archive | 2012
The good jar

Need A Reminder that Life is Good? Create a “Good Jar” for 2013

Life is good.  A fact we all too often forget. With all of the trials we go through during life, it is not surprising that we sometimes focus on all that is negative rather than on what is positive. Sometimes life is painful, but usually and more often, life is good.  So, in an effort to celebrate […]

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Check Out the ‘Wolf Moon’, FRIDAY 12/28, 5:21am (EST)

Right before sunrise tomorrow morning – Friday, December 28, 2012 at around 5:21 (EST) – a full moon will pass through 180 degrees from the Sun in Earth-based longitude, appearing full for about 3 days centered on this time (from Wednesday evening through Saturday.) It is named “The Wolf Moon” because it is the first […]

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The Algonquin Hotel – Midtown Manhattan’s Most Beloved Literary Landmark

It was less than ten years ago that the Algonquin Hotel was officially designated a literary landmark. But for more than 100 years, this historic New York tradition has invited the creative and imaginative  where drinks were made famous, where literary institutions of today would be formed and spun into gold, where legends were born. H.L. Menckin once […]

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Holiday Music by a Crackling Woodburning Fireplace. Yule Log!

Happy holidays to you and your loved ones! [Commercial Free]

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Metelkova City, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Art With A Voice: Metelkova City, Ljubljana, Slovenia

The ‘Metelkova City Autonomous Cultural Center‘, in Ljubljana, Slovenia—more commonly known and much easier said ‘Metelkova’— is a composition of seven buildings and outdoor space run by independent leaders of civic engagement, political action groups, and artists of music, painting, sculpture, literature, theater, printmaking and other arts. It is also well known for its weekend exhibitions (i.e. dancing and flirting […]

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Classic Cocktails for Grownups

Classic Cocktails for Grown Ups

The Dark ‘N’ Stormy First created and trademarked by Bermuda’s Gosling’s Export Limited — Bermuda’s oldest business house!  This boldly crisp cocktail is wildly popular with maritimers of Bermuda and Australia, who later introduced it to sailors in the mid-Atlantic. Today, you will find this drink on nearly every bar menu in the northeastern US. Glass: Highball Ingredients: 2 oz. Goslings Black Seal […]

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“Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz (from ‘A Tribute to Zdenko G. Fibich’)

“Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz (from ‘A Tribute to Zdenko G. Fibich’)

The most complicated piece of unplayable music ever composed… Is actually impossible to play. Or is it? Read more about the origins of this piece by John Arthur Stump in a thoughtful post written by his nephew.

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Travel Preparation Tips and Reminders

Last week, we published the first iteration of WOAF’s Printable Travel Packing Checklist in hopes of better equipping readers with industry’s favorite gear for traveling light and traveling smart. This week, we are following up with some complementary preparatory reminders, in no particular order: Leave a photocopy paper trail of your passport and applicable visa(s) with your family or […]

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When you travel, pack what you love!

Travel Packing Checklist

Travel light and travel smart but never forget a thing with World On A Fork’s ‘Printable Travel Checklist.’ Click image below to download a printable PDF. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tzu  

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