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I don't think I peeled a clove of garlic until I was at least 21. It wasn't because I didn't…
Some authors are blessed with illustrators who enhance their work with the distinction of their own. So it was in…
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I'm not giving anything away by quoting the deep irony of the last lines of Saplings: Turns you over, don’t…
I once worked in a school where the librarian arranged the non-fiction by the color of the spine. It made…
Near the beginning of George Orwell's 1984 our hero Winston Smith attends a rally at the Ministry of Truth where…
The first day of my new life as an idle good-for-nothing superannuated coffin-dodger (my brother's description of retirees) coincides with…
Human apathy is the greatest calamity of all. I have heard many extraordinary presentations and speeches at NAIS Annual Conferences…