Samantha Cohoe writes historically-inspired young adult fantasy. She was raised in San Luis Obispo, California, where she enjoyed an idyllic childhood of beach trips, omnivorous reading, and writing stories bri
Throw into that mix attention deficit, introverts, autism, high expectations, and varied recollections of an unusual past, we barely made it to first base. I certainly didn’t help matters. As an extreme introvert, I’ve kept to myself over the years, defining my family as my husband and...
The film is basically a quick walk-through of Dean's life. There is more to it than that, however, and along the way we find intriguing quotes from Dean's personal writings, some scenes from rare home movies, family photographs, some great screen tests, behind the scenes footage (some ...
” introduced in the 1996 movie “Grace of My Heart.” It is a song that can only register if invested with an operatic intensity, and Ms. Kole rose to the occasion with an anguished performance …she brought the same fervor to Stevie Nicks’ “Landslide...
“I could shoot a better game of pool than Bob but he always did well at the track, and when I met him he’d accumulated $1,000, which was a lot of money in the ‘50s. If he had $1,001 that meant he had a dollar to eat on, but he’d never touch the thousand. He was ...
The movement of the sun—which is not really movement, of course, but a positional shift relative to Earth caused by the planet's year-long orbit—brings the peak power of solar radiation northward. The sun's track moves first to the equator, and from the sun's position over the ...
Describing the emotions of people who have survived fires, floods, earth- quakes, and other natural disasters, an official of the American Red Cross said: "The items that cause the most grief are photographs. People lose their history when photos are lost."2 Probably no one knows the ...
1916 A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN James Joyce Joyce, James (1882-1941) - Irish novelist and short-story writer known for his innovative writing technique. Joyce was the first to extensively use the inte- rior monologue and stream of consciousness in narrative fiction. A Portrait...
Though the self-portrait has been hailed as the defining artistic genre of modernity, there is not yet a good account of what the self-portrait actually is. This paper provides such an account through the lens of document theory and the philosophy of information. In this paper, the self-por...
Running, by definition, is a solitary endeavor. But it is national--even global--in scope. Everything from your individual mileage to your mantras and music tastes are writ large by the sheer number of people putting one foot in front of the other. On th