George Washington was known to serve his own version to guests at Mount Vernon and the drink once sparked a riot at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1826, when campus staff intervened after cadets, possibly including a young Jefferson Davis, served eggnog at a boisterous Ch...
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But there were also challenges that year too. One of my classes was called “Europe Since 1870”. In the U.S., I would have expected an introductory history class, but in England, I was supposed to have already known the history; now was the time to analyze it. That meant I not on...
Inside,there was a heavy smell of dead mice in the dark.After my eyes adjusted, I noticed a shaft (竖井) that rose all the way to the top of the barn.On one side was a oneman elevator with a long rope and roller. I stepped onto the platform and gave the rope ...
Continue to develop a network of kindred spirits in the world of writing and publishing: Boulder Writers Alliance: I attended our BWA Happy Hour at the Hotel Boulderado. I also attended Gary Alan McBride’s Writers Who Read discussion of Mr. Texas by Lawrence Wright which is an entertaining ...
As interesting or not as any of that is to unsuspecting passersby, it’s the arrival from Mexico, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona of the big gray birds, like those first two we spotted straining against the elements, that people come from great distances to see. The real stars of this ...
Imagine a world where everyone can read and write. Where everyone learns how to think critically. Not only would people have a better chance to work in jobs that could support them financially, but they’d have a better chance of telling fact from fiction — truth from lies or wishful thin...
I’m heading to Austin, Texas to meet up with college friends. Our 30th reunion will take place online, and my friends will curl my hair and help me with my Zoom background. It will rain the whole weekend, but we’ll talk non-stop and laugh until we cry, and it will feel like ...
In our play, David, a young Mexican-American boy from Texas, visits his great aunt in her rancho in central Mexico. On his first night there, he is lured away from the house by La Llorona. He finds himself under her spell, following her helplessly to what seems to be a certain death...