on pins & needles

This week's pick on wonder | wander | world is Refinery 29. whose mission is to be the #1 new-media brand for smart, creative and stylish women everywhere.

The corporation is a female centered digital media company providing inspiration and tools to discover and pursue a more independent, stylish, and informed life for the empowered female of today.

celebrating trustworthy news

November 4, 2016 is Walter Cronkite's 100th Birthday. 

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, known as "the most trusted man in America".  

He is best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years. 

During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited after being so named in an opinion poll. (Wikipedia). 

With so many opinions today being bandied about - from unsubstantiated facts or hoaxes and outright lies - this is a good reminder for us all. 

Haute Halloween

wonder | wander | world has blogged about a fave brand of ours in the past, Vintage Black Label.

This Halloween, we're having a blast with their over the top bling binge and bijoux bonanza!

Read their post here.

Halloween Horrors [NOT!] Chic-y crawlies are all the rage at 188 Galerie for the fall season. 

What a hoot to dress up to the nines, make a grand entrance, entrance with a memorable impact, and shine! Shine! SHINE!

Brightly into the night - GO!

Shine your light and be a beacon of delight!

big sky: Georgia O'Keeffe at the Tate Modern

Like the Joseph Cornell retrospective, this turned out to be unexpectedly personal and affecting. Like any dedicated artist, I knew a little about Georgia O'Keeffe. I knew she lived a long time, painted flowers and skulls with great beauty and skill, lived in the American Southwest, and was a feminist icon. Mostly, though, I knew her as my mother's favourite artist.

My Front Yard, Summer 1941

women warrior queens

In a week celebrating world peace and glorifying women and girls worldwide, Michelle Obama's New Hampshire speech last night was a true clarion call.

Women of the world unite!

Signed, sealed, delivered! Hear this call and take action people!

This is not politics. This is our future.

Decency in our world. Hope for humanity.

new reco : Lit Hub

On their ABOUT page: 

Literary Hub is an organizing principle in the service of literary culture, a single, trusted, daily source for all the news, ideas and richness of contemporary literary life. There is more great literary content online than ever before, but it is scattered, easily lost—with the help of its editorial partners, 

World War II Dutch Resistance Fighters

Lit Hub is a site readers can rely on for smart, engaged, entertaining writing about all things books. Each day - alongside original content and exclusive excerpts - Literary Hub is proud to showcase an editorial feature from one of its many partners from across the literary spectrum: publishers big and small, journals, bookstores, and non-profits.

support literary translation

In honor of International Translation Day, here are some things you can do to support translation every day.

It is celebrated every year on September 30, the feast of St. Jerome - the Bible translator who is considered the patron saint of translators. 

St. Jerome in his study by Domenico Ghirlandaio

The celebrations have been promoted by FIT (the International Federation of Translators) ever since it was set up in 1953.