The Little Apple Tree After my husband, Hal and I (Ilona) retired, we decided to leave the city life behind and move to a quieter place with less rain to the eastside of the Cascade Mountain Range to a small town by a beautiful lake called Chelan. After a long search and process, we found …
Monthly Archives: October 2023
Ilona Cole, Guest Author, Story 152
Two Professors, Dr. Stern and Dr. Eckhart Two very important people in my young life, outside my family. I had talked of these two professors in my short stories before. Both had a big part in who I had become after my education and beyond. In thought they were always by my side, when the …
Ilona Cole, Guest Author, Story 151
Diorissimo Perfume… “Shocking” Perfume by Schiaparelli Two beautiful perfumes, two beautiful fragrances, I used in my younger years at different times. One was no longer available, when I came to the United States. “Shocking” by Elsa Schiaparelli, the bottle, French Art Deco, inspired by an hourglass, the shape of a female torso or dressmaker dummy, …
Ilona Cole, Guest Author, Story 150
A Tragic Opera by Puccini, “Madame Butterfly” It was opera season in Seattle and my dearest friend and niece Marcie, and I looked so forward to seeing Madame Butterfly, Puccini’s opera, with the most beautiful aria sung by Cio Cio San, a soprano, the Butterfly. The message of the tragic opera premiered February 1904 at …