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All Passion Spent: Novel from 1931 timely for me

Sackville-West, Vita. (1931). All Passion Spent.    It is inescapable that this book is about the female condition, having been written by a woman about a woman’s life that was shaped largely by her being female. The argument that Vita Sackville-West was writing a feminist expression of frustration at a male-dominated world is therefore pretty [...]

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Michael’s Shadow

Michael Jackson died today. I am reminded of finding out that he had been severely burned while filming a Pepsi commercial. It was 1984, I was nine, and in the car with my father on the way to the old Home Depot in College Park, GA, when I heard the news on the radio. I [...]

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Food and Travel? An Adventure Book Even I Can Love

Majumdar, Simon (2009). Eat my globe: one year to go everywhere and eat everything. New York: Free Press. ISBN: 978-1-4165-7602-0 Just what I’ve been craving. An adventurous food book! A British blogger from a family where food is the primary, or it seems only, past time, finds himself turning forty. It is not surprise that [...]

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Cradlesong, Amazing New Rob Thomas album

 I’m not a big follower of popular music, but somehow Rob Thomas’s voice and lyrics speaks to me. It is great to hear a male singer with a strong voice who expresses both vulnerability and strength through music at the same time. He ahs a new album coming out June 30 called “cradlesong,” and the [...]

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Magic “Father’s Day” Cactus

Our “Christmas Cactus” has decided to bloom this week. Um, Happy Father’s Day, Dad.

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