One of the great disappointments of my adult life has been how much I truly hate cooking. In my romantic envisions of self, long ago as a tee…
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I used to wonder what it would be like to live in an era, like the sixties, when everyone was obsessed with change and taking a stand and what…
As a 38 year-old woman, I’m certainly not young, but I can also safely say that I have rather little expertise on much in life. Every year, I…
Whenever I’m around books, I feel alive. Here’s how I’m going to quantify that statement: whenever - meaning at any time, in any place - I’m…
It’s always an interesting exercise to consider the etymology of a word. We use words all day, of course, but sometimes, they can become ‘buz…
Recently, a friend sent me the book The Great Good Thing, by Andrew Klavan. I hadn’t heard of him, and wasn’t entirely sure why she sent it -…
If a writer writes the same kinds of things over and over again, does it make her thematic? Ideological? Or maybe just boring?
In ancient Greece, a myth was told about a young man, known for his handsome face and attractive body, who was so confident in his own appeara…
A few years back, I went to see a movie with a couple of girlfriends. I’m not a big movie-goer, and definitely not a rom-com movie-goer, but …
It turns out that a lot of people have something to say about learning. Lou Holtz said, “I never learn anything talking. I only learn things…
