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One of my favorite places to take friends to in downtown Bentonville is the 21c hotel and museum located just off the square. It is easy to spot with green penguin sculptures at the doors and on the roof, a car covered in coins permanently parked out front, and because of the basketball sculpture inContinue reading “Postmodern Art”

During my time in Europe this past summer, when I was working toward achieving my Global Competence Certificate, I visited Schwangau, Germany. Although this is the location of a popular tourist destination, the Neuschwanstein Castle, that which the famous Disney Castle is based on, what I found most beautiful was the nature of the surroundingContinue reading “Possessing Beauty”

The freedom to go about one’s daily life facilitated by modern day’s ease of transportation and availability of goods was something many people in first-world countries took advantage of. Not often does one repeatedly have to go to a store in hopes of finding toilet paper or find themselves in their home for such aContinue reading “Postmodern Reality Complications”

When I first tell people I hail from Bentonville, Arkansas their first reaction is often “Wow, I’ve never met someone from Arkansas before.” To them, Arkansas is a practically non-existent place that must be akin to a cluster of the small towns often depicted in the Hallmark movies my mother enjoys. When I first visitedContinue reading “The Bentonville Square”

While driving home today from Purdue, my parents and I passed through the town I grew up in that we have since moved away from. It was around lunch time, so they decided we should stop in Springfield, MO and eat at their favorite Mexican restaurant that they had discovered after I began college atContinue reading “Cesar’s Old Mexico”

Although a bronze ball atop a dome may not seem like an architectural feat in the modern day, during the time of da Vinci and his predecessors, it was a major accomplishment. The amount of trial and error, mechanical innovations and time spent on creating the lantern and ball on the Florence Duomo is theContinue reading “Verrocchio’s Ball”

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of trying La Scala Italian Restaurant, located just over the bridge in Lafayette, Indiana. Although the town may be surrounded by cornfields, it never ceases to amaze me what hidden gems one can find in the most obscure places; La Scala did not disappoint. I think I speak forContinue reading “America’s “Authentic” Italian Food”