It’s started getting warmer here. Oh, my poor sister is still in the land of ice and snow but I saw my first bumblebee yesterday, hovering around the forsythia and ready to go into business. It’s time to start thinking of sandals and sunscreen, vacations and fireworks. It’s time to start thinking about summer and books to read at the beach. Beach Lit is, from what I’ve seen , a well-known ...
It’s started getting warmer here. Oh, my poor sister is still in the land of ice and snow but I saw my first bumblebee yesterday, hovering around the forsythia and ready to go into business. It’s time to start thinking of sandals and sunscreen, vacations and fireworks. It’s time to start thinking about summer and books to read at the beach. Beach Lit is, from what I’ve seen , a well-known ...
Life on the Gulf is hard. Follow your nose past the shiny hotels and condos that block up the view and look at the rest of the world. The ground is flat, the air is heavy and the heat will knock you stupid two-thirds of the year. The highways are lined with billboards advertising pain doctors, tourist traps and attorneys promising high settlements and cheap divorces. The scrub grows high and thick here. The...
You’re not supposed to re-read classics for pleasure, but I do. To me, that’s the real definition of classic: when something’s so good it transcends the first or second wave of popularity so people return to it year after year, seeing new ties and ideas with each re-reading. so their depth of appreciation grows with age. Anyone can read a book once and pronounce a judgment, good or bad. On the other h...
We move through life so quickly. Children cram play-dates and lessons between study for entrance exams. Letters gave way to phone calls, then email and disappeared with video-chats and tweets. We create five-year, ten-year and twenty-year goals, power-walking our way through life and all we see is what’s before us. But is that all there is? Aislinn Hunter suggests in The World Before Us that what we sense in this accelerated life ...