I recently saw this link on another blog, and thought I'd share it here. At Biblioz.com, if you enter your birthdate, you can look up the top ten fiction and non-fiction best-sellers from that week. Click here (note: ...
Halley’s Cometby Stanley Kunitz Miss Murphy in first gradewrote its name in chalkacross the board and told usit was roaring down the stormtracksof the Milky Way at frightful speedand if it wandered off its courseand smashed...
My husband and I started cohabitating in 1993 and in the eighteen years since then, we've moved eleven times. Sometimes across the country, sometimes down the street. We have owned homes and rented, have lived alone...
This is Franz Liszt, a German composer who spent twenty-six years composing his first piano concerto. He began in 1830 while still a student and didn't complete it until 1856. It's hard to say why it took him so...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
