Do you ever hear a phrase and wonder where it came from? I
do, all the time. So much so, in fact, that I just hopped over and bought this
book for some enlightening bathroom reading: Flying by the Seat of Your Pants.
A phrase...
Stones
by Polly Johnson is a coming-of-age novel set in Brighton, England. Johnson’s
descriptions of the seaside community set the stage for this story about Coo,
a sixteen-year-old girl still reeling from the death of her...
Recently, we were teasing my sister. She works in accounting
and one day at her office, she mentioned Stenos and no one
knew what she was talking about. She has many younger coworkers, it seems. But you remember Steno notebooks,...
Today's supposed to be the most depressing day of the year. This has been analyzed, apparently, by measuring the "happiness index" of a group of people. Post-holidays, everyone is overweight and overtired, you see,...
"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
