by Brooke Leigh Sheldon
The season is upon us. The time for spiders (Don’t ya’ hate walking through a spider web, ewwwww, creepola!!!) and bats (They mine bat poop (guano)…. Who knew?!), ghosts (See, I told you to get out in the sun a little more!!!) and werewolves (They leave me howling!). Let’s not forget vampires (They’re the ones [...]
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by Brooke Leigh Sheldon
The perception of jealousy being “green-eyed” likely predates Mr. Shakespeare, though The Bard is our earliest authority in print. His first reference is in The Merchant of Venice. It is Portia who refers to “green-eyed jealousy”, but it is in Othello where Will coins the more intense term “green-ey’d monster.” However, before Shakespeare and since, [...]
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