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- Courage to Teach retreats nurture teachers' souls (The Capital Times)
Television viewers might recall the interview when actress Katharine Hepburn told interviewer Barbara Walters she was like a tree, prompting Walters to ask, "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?" While the idea of reflecting about trees might sound strange -- Hepburn had no problem with it and said she would be an oak -- observing changes in trees is part of the renewal process ...
- Huge names (and a scandal) during Paris Fashion Week (Manila Standard Today)
So first, the scandal. Here’s the juice: Alessandra Facchinetti, who replaced Valentino when the designer retired last year was fired by the brand. Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierre Paolo Piccioli (Valentino accessories designers) will take over.
- Off the shelf: Bookslut talks to Miriam Toews, meet Al Gore's ... - National Post
Off the shelf: Bookslut talks to Miriam Toews, meet Al Gore's ...National Post, Canada - 1 hour agoPoetry's not dead, apparently it just went online. The UK-based Poetry Archive, which hosts recordings of poets reading their work online, is apparently ...
- Poets of The Desert And the Sea - Forward
Poets of The Desert And the SeaForward, NY - 35 minutes agoThat’s the case with two fine new books of Jewish poetry, Rachel Zucker’s “The Bad Wife Handbook” and Dan Bellm’s “Practice.” I doubt Zucker and Bellm would ...
- Tories so sad to lose frank Kim - WalesOnline
Tories so sad to lose frank KimWalesOnline, United Kingdom - Oct 11, 2008SPIN doctor has always been a big fan of amusingly off-message Pontypridd MP Kim Howells, and was sad to see him lose his job at the Foreign Office in ...
- Frank Marshall Davis and the Deception of Pornography - Huffington Post
Huffington PostFrank Marshall Davis and the Deception of PornographyHuffington Post, NY - 23 minutes ago... of Sex Rebel: Black after an astute reader/fanboy noticed the "similarities in style and phraseology" between the pornographic work and his poetry. ...
- Young at Art - Arizona Daily Star
Young at ArtArizona Daily Star, AZ - 11 hours agoIn addition, there will be an exhibit of art depicting Kino's life, poetry readings, music and dance. Bakery goods and soft drinks will be available for ...
- Shafts of sunlight - Guardian Unlimited
When I was growing up poor and Pentecostal in the north of England, books were not allowed in our house, unless they were Bible books or my mother's mystery stories - not of the miracle play kind, but of the Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen kind. My ...
- Bringing Hollywood to Brattleboro - NHPR
Bringing Hollywood to BrattleboroNHPR, NH - 4 hours agoIt includes workshops on historical fiction, nature writing, poetry, children’s books - all the stuff you’d expect at a lit fest. ...
- Read This Only if Truly Bored - New York Times Blogs
The following message contains no content of interest to the average reader. It is the equivalent of a station-identification ad on TV, with only slightly more information. This message is to inform you that the Freakonomics blog will be migrating ...
- Semisweet "Chocolate News" (Salon.com)
Is David Alan Grier's flava-ful new sketch comedy show a black version of "The Daily Show"?
- At the polls: 'I've never seen anything like this' (Centre Daily Times)
Lines of voters — some with children along for the historic moment — began forming half an hour before the polls opened Tuesday and offered an unfamiliar presence in the normal morning landscape as Centre County residents woke to Election Day.
- Nice Story About Smile Train - New York Times Blogs
Nice Story About Smile TrainNew York Times Blogs, NY - 14 minutes ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
- Small Company Secrets: My parents drugged me - Goleta Valley Voice
Small Company Secrets: My parents drugged meGoleta Valley Voice, CA - Nov 6, 2008By Paul Burri I was talking to an old friend the other day — and when I say an old friend I mean that literally. He and I were the best of friends between ...
- Staffers bare all - The Nation Newspaper
The Nation NewspaperStaffers bare allThe Nation Newspaper, Barbados - 15 hours ago... judges with an impressive poetry/drama rendition. Her original poem – a soliloquy – told abouta man who beat her and whose death she constantly plots. ...
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