Byline: By VICKY ROBSONEvening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
It got me through the most difficult times when my girlfriend or my mother passed away and I was listening to your music that helped get me through my most difficult time.' And so what could be more significant than another human being saying that 'You've saved my life. You made my l...
"Will I have a smile on my face when I go to my grave if I haven't made it in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Sure," he said. "We've played in front of audiences and people have said so many wonderful things about, 'JY, your music has changed my life. Your music saved ...
As anyone who was my friend during that moment will tell you, that’s not the way it really was. Time and absence – the two most potent seasonings of human experience. This year I flew to Colorado to break up with the west – or more specifically, the kind of western mountain town ...
Like my rose bushes, there are unwanted pests and other challenges. Sometimes those must be removed. With the skilled radiologists seeing what needed to be removed and surgeons trained to remove it, I am able to have the unwanted part of me removed. Also symbolic, in order to cut the ...
Rin Hamuro (60) won the Naoki Prize [for best novel in Japanese by a new or rising author] for Chronicle of Evening Cicadas (published by Shodensha). Mr. Hamuro, who has been nominated for the Naoki five times, was born in Kitakyushu. He debuted in 2005 and won the Seichō Matsumoto...
Feeling great to be selected in the ‘Top 10 Prominent & Great Personalities of the year 2022’ campaign by Fame Finders. It is an online campaign to honour inspiring personalities and feature them in the upcoming edition of the top news sites, including – Deccan Chronicle/Asian Age/Deccan ...
She’s worked at big-name newspapers – the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and the San Francisco Chronicle, to name the most notable ones – and what I think has kept us together over 30+ years is our similar sense of humor, a lot of which revolves around language (of course, she...
“Other difficulties for victims in the legal process can include challenges in acquiring evidence as well as experiencing emotional hardships such as shame, or mistrust of the judicial system.” When you consider this kind of long-lasting – often permanent – damage… ...
The result, These Precious Days (HarperCollins, digital galley), is one of my favorite books of the year. It’s like having a conversation with a good friend, one who is smart and witty and shares your interests: the challenges of clearing out possessions, the wonders of Kate DiCamillo’...