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The Gift of Stones

Just added Jim Crace's The Gift of Stones to my book recommendations list. I bow down to Mr Crace's ability …

Today has been a moderately busy day (read: I did something other than cook, eat and sleep), my first in …

From the June 2003 issue of National Geographic: When Rachel Anderson, then 13, was featured in a May 1993 Geographic …

I just finished reading Melissa Pritchard's Disappearing Ingenue: The Misadventures of Eleanor Stoddard. I can't remember how I heard about …

word of the day: struthious (stroo' the-es) adj. Of, or relating to, or resembling an ostrich or a related bird. …

I just finished Stuffed by Patricia Volk, a memoir about her family who for a century owned restaurants in New …

I'm done with my semester. What a weird feeling. Usually I have a couple of finals, and a lot of …