Yesterday, I had to do something that was quite sad – I had to call and cancel our subscription to the local newspaper. Due to unexpected financial stresses, we simply can’t afford to have the daily paper delivered any longer. I thought about keeping the Sunday paper, because I do […]
Words are powerful. No doubt about that. Whole civilizations have risen and fallen on the power of words. Words can move mountains; they have the power to heal, or the power to destroy. Our ability to communicate through words is part of what makes us human. But sometimes, their power […]
The Cost of Hope: A Memoir Amanda Bennett Random House Publishing Group Original Edition (June 5, 2012) IBSN: 978-1-4000-6984-2 — ♦ — Amanda Bennett has lived a pretty big life so far – Harvard graduate, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, reporter for the The Wall Street Journal, editor of the Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY), […]
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.