Butter Anne Panning Switchgrass Books First Edition: October 15, 2012 ISBN 978-0-87580-681-5 We usually think of nostalgia as a sentimental warm fuzzy feeling, a wistful desire to return back to what was, when – true or not – things seemed to have been simpler, and “better.” What is so marvelous […]
When I was in grade school, we learned cursive writing. Everyone did. The three R’s: reading, “w”riting and ‘rithmatic. But there was more to spur me on with my cursive studies. My grandmother, a great lady of the arts, insisted that I work on my penmanship until my script was […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.