Shel Silverstein's book of children's poems, Where The Sidewalk Ends, was a mainstay in all the elementary schools I went to. So, because of that, I have many fond memories of reading through the poems and looking at the crude but unique drawings accompanying them with my friends, laughi...
Where the Sidewalk EndsAnalysis First Stanza There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, (…) And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind. The description of the “place” that happens “where the sidewalk ends” is offered in ...
and the handprints of stars in the sidewalk apparently have to step over human poop on the sidewalk and dodge aggressive street people. I don’t think that proposed revamping will help much. It will all be a Potempkin set dressing on a decaying urban setting. And I haven’t set foot in...
Kaschnitz wrote The House of Childhood while she and her husband were living in Rome in the mid-1950s and some German critics have suggested the book was a symbolic attempt to explore the childhoods that were lost to younger Germans during the Third Reich. (Renate Rasp would take a much d...
It is as if he is consuming the Hills not just psychologically but physically as well. By playing with their minds and their diets, Conrad eventually rearranges lives of the Hills and the Vales in such a way that he becomes the all-controlling force over them, and ends up as master of...
Alright… I get the whole “Till Death Do Us Part” thing… But that’s where it’s suppose to end. Right? I guess for some people that’s not where it ends. There are actually several men that have slept beside their wives dead bodies for days or even years… They say that it’...
Margaret always wanted to travel. She also wanted her own house, but ends up having to settle for living with her in-laws for many years. As old age takes its toll on Al and Rose, Richard and Margaret are called upon to help them, as family does. Any time Margaret brings up her de...
When you buy that feel-good electric car, do you wonder where your old clunker ends up? Or what is involved in producing those electric car batteries? When you buy a pedigree dog, how many were bred for this transaction and how many needy shelter dogs are euthanized because a certain ...
Recently, in a glint of sunlight hitting a sidewalk or passing through a window, perhaps you felt it. Cutting through the winter sky, brilliant light looming closer. On some deep instinctual level, maybe you sensed yourself swinging through space, closer to the sun by just over three million...
325. Butter 10×5 loaf pan and line the bottom with strips of parchment paper that extend 2″ past the short ends of the pan. I didn’t do the parchment paper strips, but I did make sure to that I sprayed my pan well with non-stick spray (I know, I didn’t do the butter ...