orphan elephants
via photography.nationalgeographic.com Filed under: Miscellany
Lilian Nattel
billionnaire says stop coddling the super rich
OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They,…
over-rated great novels?
Authors confess to books they’d kick out of the canon Slate Magazine http://ow.ly/64NpJ Filed under: Miscellany
My Birthday Present
Filed under: Beautiful, Personal Tagged: serendipity
See the Cover!
I’ve been MIA this week as summer took over. Less than a month left and so much to do with kids and Web of Angels. Do you like the cover?…
chimp dads as well as moms adopt babies
Here we report 18 cases of adoption, a highly costly behavior, of orphaned youngsters by group members in Taï forest chimpanzees. Half of the adoptions were done by males and…
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Yesterday I saw a 3D movie and it was gorgeous. This is how it came about. My dear sister-in-law and her boyfriend were intending to take my kids to Canada’s…
the true price of publishing
production or content? http://ow.ly/5WRvG Filed under: Miscellany
grammar changes votes
new study shows how voter reactions differ according to which form of past tense is used! http://ow.ly/5WP76 Filed under: Miscellany
coal and the Buddha
via photography.nationalgeographic.com This photo speaks for itself. Filed under: Miscellany
A Reading Find: The Real Shangri-la
The other day, A and I were talking about our kids. One thing led to another as it does, and soon we were talking about patriarchy and matriarchy. A, who…
24 hours in pictures
via guardian.co.uk By turns gripping and charming: photos around the world in one day. Click on the link above. Filed under: Miscellany
The Mind’s Eye: A Review
“Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.”…
The Enchanted April: A Review
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim tells the story of four women in the early 1920′s who share a small, remote Italian castle for a month, and in doing…
Jack Layton
Jack Layton is a rare politician: a man of dignity, decency, and optimism, respected by all parties. For my non-Canadian friends, this is the man who led the left-leaning NDP…
Norway
I won’t give the right-wing murderer a platform and I won’t satisfy his zest for notoriety by naming him. Instead I want to send my heart-felt thoughts and sympathies to…
Heat Wave Over! And my book is…
I’m a new woman! The heat took its toll. The only way I could tell the difference between a hot flash and hot air was that I needed 2 ice…
can you hold hands in the San Fran Jewish Museum?
Levikow was in the gallery with her partner when she noticed a young lesbian couple in heated conversation with a security guard. “They were holding hands,” Levikow said, “and he…
A Hike to the Secret Passage
Last Friday and Saturday morning, before higher temperatures required me to do nothing but lie on the couch and read, A and I got up at 6:00 am to hike.…
how Boarders blew it
Good summary of the marketing and financial decisions that led to Boarder’s bankruptcy http://ow.ly/5Jds3 Filed under: Miscellany