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Luckily for me, I enjoy research. I like doing a quick search and seeing if I hit anything interesting on the first try. I like going down rabbit holes. And I like pulling my discoveries together into some kind of recognizable order. ...
Before the start of the First World War, Britain relied heavily on imported grain from America for the production of bread. With the availability of grain limited by unrestricted German submarine warfare from January 1917, combined with a poorer than expected harvest in 1916 and the continued depl...
These days, I find myself poignantly aware that our years of summering together are running out, and my heart feels more heavy than light when September rolls around. (Full disclosure: my kids are currently at sleepaway camp for two weeks, so ask me later this month, after we’ve road...
Jefferson gathered a stellar cast for the feature: a never-better Jeffrey Wright stars as beleaguered professor and underappreciated writer Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, and he’s joined by everyone from Tracee Ellis Ross to Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown to John Ortiz, Adam Brody to Leslie Uggams...
I still remember with a brilliant young woman fromFeminists for Life. I still smile at the memory of two blonde, articulate, regular female protesters, who had a commanding presence and were always joined at the hip, and whom the counter- protesters nicknamed “the Barbie Dolls from Hell....
The next few years were spent taking the business of writing and publishing seriously. There were groups to join and books to read. I joined SCBWI or the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. It was an amazing resource putting me in touch with people and organizations that un...
LETS HATE THIS TOGETHER AT THE SAME TIME: Seeing the leaves pile up in your lawn and knowing how many frustrating hours of rounding them up are ahead of you. Each day that passes, my anxiety rises. MY BABY IS SO CUTE MOMENT: The Warden really loves when I let my hair fall onto he...
By the mid-summer of 1909, Griffith had directed more than 150 short films. For Mary Pickford, who joined Biograph in April of that year,The Broken Locketwas her 28th appearance before the Biograph camera, about sixteen of which could be called “lead” roles, including Ruth King, the ever...
There are some atmospheric images of the front garden in the snow, as well as evidence of how rural-looking Ealing was in Edwardian days, with a long, tree-lined road, Longfield Avenue, seen in summer and winter. Summer holiday photos outside London show the family, together with friends,...