Why I’m Interested: While I’m not a big fan girl of Studio Ghibli, I was also intrigued by the description of a highly whimsical contemporary fantasy story that follows the owner of a pawn shop that deals in regrets. The cover itself is also pretty great! Plus, it promises a nice r...
When i was a little girl, my Mama would tell my big sister and me stories about her childhood to help us go to sleep. They ranged from funny to slightly macabre. That time when she was gifted 2 new barrettes for her hair and her maid said to her “If you lose those, don’t both...
It was the first time she’d ever met a girlfriend of her sons. I was asked my star sign. Age. Occupation. Dreams. If I wanted kids. What my family was like etc. Like I got grilled. But I took it like a champ and then put the air conditioner on because I could see she getti...
That is to say Anthony who faces down the enemy and gets the girl. I’m not convinced. Though a small character by comparison, I would argue that it is the father who makes the biggest transformation when Mister That-would-be-stupid finally says yes. Or is it his wife, who finally pu...
The girl child survived. The plague returned (in 1361–62) as she reached adulthood and she survived that too, although another 20 per cent of the population is said to have died. When she was just past 30 years of age, she fell very ill and was given the last rites. During a kind...
“Salt from within” is one of my favourite terms from chef Samin Nosrat (her book and Netflix show Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is a seminal read/watch). It’s basically what happens when you marinade in something salty, salt your cooking water before your food even goes in, or brine ...
I was teaching a Sikh history class to young children and they asked me when they should take amrit and join the Khalsa. I told them, they should do it the same as the Panj Pyaarey did…as soon as they heard the Guru’s call. Then one girl raised her hand and asked,Veerji…has ...
I was teaching a Sikh history class to young children and they asked me when they should take amrit and join the Khalsa. I told them, they should do it the same as the Panj Pyaarey did…as soon as they heard the Guru’s call. Then one girl raised her hand and asked,Veerji…has ...
Season 3, where she was played by Willa Holland. Though Woodleytook to Twitterin 2020 to call being on "The O.C." "one of [her] proudest accomplishments," she revealed in aWired interviewthat she was a "late bloomer" and that the producers of the show wanted a "girl who had a ...
a kindergartner who likesPaw Patrol; another drunk guy; a high school girlfriend of two weeks; lots of Wake students; a group that talked twenty more minutes about the Kardashians than I ever want to hear again; and many other Winston-Salemites. And the great thing is that I have only...