I was splitting wood a few years ago, and a piece flew back and hit me in the shin. It didn’t tear my jeans but broke the skin underneath. No big deal. I’ve had tons of worse wounds in my life. But a month later, an infection began to swell up in my leg. Cellulitis. Nast...
Many months later I would be sitting at my kitchen table reading the most recent Peggy Noonan piece and she would share a story from her nephew about the magic, the charm, the Americana of baseball. “See?” He’d asked her after a particularly emotional ballgame. “How can you not lov...
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable. — Martin Amis 62 ...
Another favourite drink wasegg-nog, which was composed of an egg beaten and stirred together with sugar, milk and spirit…The stick used for this purpose was split at the end and a transverse piece of wood inserted, which was rapidly whirled around, back and forward, between the palms of ...
Comprising six pieces divided into two volumes, Goyescas is regarded as the pianistic masterpiece of Granados, who himself premiered the first part of the suite - Los requiebros; Coloquio en la reja; El fandango de candil; Quejas, o La maja y el ruiseñor - at the Palau de la Música ...
I wanna get you home And ugh, double-up, ugh, ugh I ain't talking 'bout Playboy 'Cause silicone parts are made for toys I want 'em real thick and juicy So find that juicy double Mix-a-Lot's in trouble Begging for a piece of that bubble ...
Taylor Le Roy Ladurie Le Roy Ladurie Braudel Braudel Posted here (above) — both as Word documents and PDFs — are four articles which I wrote for the reference bookCurrent Biography: Chaim Potok novelist Current Biography, May 1983
Faces of beauty ByPeter Lindbergh Fashion photography is about more than garments and labels - it is about penetrating the physical fo ... In-Vogue Home is where the art is With an artistic masterpiece by Sir Winston Churchill, The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell, recently goin ... ...
But there is a constant: a piece of homemade pie and a hot cup of good coffee. I think society fell apart when people stopped pausing their day for pie and coffee and a little conversation as their mid-morning break. Not some rushed Starbuck’s coffee-ish drink with your name scrawled...
When so many pieces are so good, it’s often difficult to choose a favorite, but I identified only one of the works here with a note in my Kindle, remarking simply: “Fantastic” That piece is “Polonia” (from 2005) and is a response to the question “What advice would you give th...