ghosts her friends, and hides out in a guest house of a religious order, even though she is nonreligious. She wants to be alone. But after her initial stay, she returns to the order to live with the nuns. I was never sure if she joined the order or not. I have often thought the...
Patrina Marshall: Mainly, it was … libido. … that he didn't wanna sleep with her. … maybe she thought he was taking steroids … because his whole demeanor changed and his attitude towards her changed. Natalie Morales: Like mood swings? Patrina Marshall: Mm-hmm. Nata...
That was 55 years ago. I naively thought those days were over. I have seen lots of advancements – but today we took a giant step back. If this is going to be behind us, we need to fix the cause and change the system so that the inequities of opportunity do not exist. Then we ...
I was standing wondering what to do when I noticed a grey light of television filling an upstairs window of a guesthouse across the road. Hooray, I thought, someone awake, and hastened across, planning humble apologies to the kindly owner for the lateness of my arrival and imagining a ...
Below, I tried to have a new thing almost every day, but my backlog grew really big and eventually I had saved the link so long ago that I was just making up what day I learned it on. From here on out I’m just going to add facts when I can, and try to prevent another huge...
The thought of Anna’s funeral was unbearable – not because it was such a shockingly alien concept, but precisely because it wasn’t. She spoke a lot about death. She spoke a lot about her own funeral. She had plans. One idea was that if she died unmarried, she should have a ...
While central to Ashura and collective Shi i identity, he does not match his elder brother Imam al-Husayn because he was the Infallible Imam. As Al-Qazwini (1999) argues, "The power of infallibility or without sin does not make a person incapable of committing sins, rather he/she refrain...
303. “I’m sorry I thought I paid my bill. I was wrong.”― Jon Jones 304. “I took it all for granted, I’m sorry to say.”― Dorothy McGuire 305. “I’m sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that...
it was at that point that everything took a turn, I left my job and decided to start investing, I was making great profit, I moved out to a full house, my parents finally came back and told me they were proud, I had built up the courage to ask out my crush and she said yes,...
My mother was broken for many years after but was always there for the rest of us. She was diagnosed almost four years ago with brain cancer and we lost her to that battle. This commercial reminds me of the reunitement the two of them must have had. I found solace in that belief ...