Like many of you readers, I have too many interests and not enough time. Being the industrious person that I am, I have started to combine my hobbies to try to be more efficient. However, because my three favorite activities are running, crocheting (and/or knitting), and reading, the resulting combinations…
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Top 10 Short Stories by Famous Authors
The short story has been defined in several different manners. One definition that I find particularly pleasing is, “a story that one should be able to read in one sitting”. Edgar Allen Poe said something similar once. Here’s a list of some of my favorites, not in any respective order….
Feed Your Inner Wanderer
“A man cannot become wise until he has weathered/ his share of winters in this world” – from The Wanderer, trans. RM Liuzza *** Though the wind-chill was still below zero this morning, little February is coming to an end and taking winter with it. Spring is just 20 days…
Ten Fantastic Examples of Queer Person-of-Color Literature
In my experience as a student of the public school system, English literature departments seldom offer texts in the curriculum that deviate from a white, middle-to-upper class, Eurocentric (and very often male) voice. Students like me are taught authors like Shakespeare and Dickens, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald and Faulkner. The poets…
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