What do you do when you get pretty old and have no pension but do have your health? I had to confront this during a couple of years of lockdowns, living in someone else’s house because I was trapped by airports closing. But for some years before that I had wanted something new to...
The broad strokes of Kevin Kwan’s bestselling, compulsively readable “Crazy Rich Asians” novel are familiar enough: it’s a girl meets boy story — and a girl-meets-boy’s-deranged-family story — the kind of subject matter that’s always ripe for a comedy. But Kwan’s books, loosel...
I thought he was hinting for some more strokes, but no he obviously knows the class routine well; the yoga finished and as people came out of the back room, lots of them stopped stroke him. It was time for more fuss. Clever puss. I bought this little decorative pot which came in a...
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’I must not sulk’ and ’I must obey.’ And if they are not ready, Sir, twelve strokes good and full. And every morning until they are ready, twelve strokes. That’s how we do things here. No shirking. Play the fool with me and you pay for it—up to the hilt. This, at ...
One Sunday before Valentine’s Day, Reverend Dennis makes an announcement during the service– the Temples have lost everything in a fire, and the church is collecting anything that might be useful to them. James thinks hard about what he can add to the Temple’s “love box,” but what ...
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A joke that causes despair, and suffering, and pain.” This was Miss Eve Macintosh teaching our fifth grade health class. This week’s topic was “Love Stinks.” Miss Macintosh’s boyfriend, Chip Wild, had been gruesomely murdered. He had been clubbed, stabbed, shot and run over. The ...