A few months ago a friend decided she didn’t like reading on her Kobo and she gave it to me. The timing was perfect. I had just returned from a 5-week trip on which I’d run out of reading material. Though I have been staunchly resistant to...
I don’t see many movies on the big screen these days, but I made the effort to see WONDER WOMAN after reading several good reviews and hearing an interview with Jill Lepore, who wrote an entire book about the history of Wonder Woman. The film was...
It is 8:00 am on a Sunday morning in the Garonne Valley of France. I lie in bed drinking coffee and listening to overlapping church bells, some from the village up the hill, other from across the river. The birds, swallows and mourning doves, are...
I have asked my fiction students to memorize a paragraph of prose of their own choosing. This is not the first time I have done this. In the past, students have executed the task gracefully, if nervously. One student amazed me by committing to...
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