If You Love Me Let Me Go

Hi you guys, I hope everyone is all rested up for a new week! So, I have a question for all of you. Have you ever loved someone or something, but you had to give it up? Well that’s because it’s something that just has to be done. Kalypso loved Odysseus, but she had to…

Mr.Sandman

Hello everyone, Happy Friday! It has been a long week, and I just felt like I could never get enough sleep to feel fully rested. I don’t know if it was the fact that sleep had been on my mind all week, but when I came across a portion of The Odyssey when it mentions…

Triggered

Hello all, Who’s ready for Monday? Yah me neither. So, have you guys ever been talking or reading and come across something that causes you to think of a memory or a person. A certain word just triggers an immediate connection. For me this happens all the time. It just happened in reading The Odyssey. The red-headed…

Remember Me For Centuries

Hi all, So, my classmates and I recently took a trip down the road to Mizzou’s campus where there is a collection of one of a kind books, some as old as the 14th century. I know what you’re thinking, “Why is that so cool? It sounds pretty lame.” I don’t blame you either because that…

The Gods, The Myths, The Legends

Hello everyone, I hope everyone is having a good weekend! So, in reading the book The Odyssey, I remembered how interesting I find Greek mythology to be. There are so many stories that explained how certain things came about to the Greeks. It’s what made sense to them. I’m not sure how they kept track…

Who’s To Blame?!

Hello everyone, Thank goodness it’s Friday right?! So, when our lives aren’t going the way we’d like them to, and things seem to keep going wrong, what do we do? We tend to find someone or something to place the blame on and be angry at. In The Ramayana, Rama get’s to a point to…