I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true.…
Happy Birthday Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 2019)
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.Ernest…
Z&H Book Club: A History of the United States in Five Crashes
The first book has been checked off my Z&H Book Club list. One down, fourteen to go. I finished A…
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Z&H Book Club: 15 in 2
In May 2016, I made a list. The list contained thirty books I have yet to read. I gave myself…
January 7, 2019
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that…
December 25, 2018
“One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single…
July 14, 2018
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine. -Charles Dickens, A Tale of…
30 in 3 Book Challenge Update: The Count of Monte Cristo
The 30 in 3 Book Challenge continues! Slowly but surely, it continues. I received a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo as a…
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June 29, 2018
“‘It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your…
30 in 3 Book Challenge Update: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The 30 in 3 Book Challenge is slowly coming along. I must note that an updated list will be posted soon as…
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Stephen Hawking
And another one bites the dust. Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. Dr. Hawking was a Cambridge…
March 8, 2018 – #InternationalWomensDay
Today is International Women's Day. I take this day with some form of bittersweetness, because, let's face it, we as…
December 13, 2017
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. -Voltaire, Zadig
December 8, 2017
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up…
September 13, 2017
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -Virgina Woolf, A Room of One's Own
