This morning I drove to Louisville (which is about an hour away) for a pedicure. As I was talking to my mother on ride down there (I promise all safe…
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This is a video, so maybe I’m cheating, but it doesn’t even capture how cool it was to watch this lightning show. You can join Wordless Wednesday here.
This is a book that was recommended by the Carolina Chocolate Drops at last year’s Ohio River Valley Folk Festival. It’s not every day that a band comes with a…
This morning I started reading a “food memoir” called Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girhood in Whitebread America by Linda Furiya. Furiya grew up just up the road…
A couple of days ago I was browsing through the book blogosphere and came upon a post by The Reading Ape about the gender gap in reading. This was in…
For those of you who may not yet know what Room is about, Emma Donoghue’s novel is the story of a woman who is kidnapped and forcibly held in a…
Lew and Ben Snowden, perhaps the authors of “Dixie” Sooner or later, I was bound to get to a topic of infinite complexity and fascination for me, the American South….
So years ago, I remember hearing Bill Maher on Real Time go off on the connections between the food industry, the drug industry and the medical establishment. He was arguing…
Last night, Jeff and I watched Creation, a lovely little film that dramatizes the period in Darwin’s life right before the publication of On the Origin of the Species. For…
Let me say first of all that when I read The Kite Runner for our college’s Common Reading a couple of years ago, I was not the only person to…
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