Hello again, Blogonauts! On Sunday, I wandered through the collections found in a triumvirate of treasure troves, i.e., three of the many museums found in Oxford. Universities are often endowed with semiprecious or memorable objects. Most often these bits of historic paraphernalia were discovered, invented, constructed, or just as often, pilfered by their graduates and patrons. The Louvre, the Prada, the Uffizi, the Rijksmuseum, even the Vatican Museum would b...

Hello again, Blogonauts! Welcome to "Gothica"! I am, after a long time sleepless, in Oxford. Etymology for the town's name is easy to work out. It was a initially a farming settlement, and this is where the cows could cross the shallows of the river... in other words, here is the ox ford. But from these humble beginnings arose great spires and inspirations. As a university, Oxford is legendary... iconic... revered... and highly, highly traditional. On the day of ...