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April 3, 2018[…] started having girlfriends over. Ladyfriends, he called them. When I stayed home sick from school, I saw the ladyfriends leave for work. “How cute. Is this yours?” they said, pointing at me on the […]
[…] started having girlfriends over. Ladyfriends, he called them. When I stayed home sick from school, I saw the ladyfriends leave for work. “How cute. Is this yours?” they said, pointing at me on the […]
[…] a wealth of historical data culled from years of research. Although Butler had written his autobiography at the end of his life primarily as a selective and highly focussed testament to his family about […]
[…] if he would ever get to painting this window or if it even mattered anymore in a world this different. He turned back to her because he knew she was watching him. She knew […]
Once, when I was twenty-one and fretting about my future, my aunt said, “Why, you have the world by the tail! You can have anything you want!” Today I feel that I have the […]
English professor and rebel: Off campus, our sentences race the tabletop, garbed in wit and color. By the time food comes, our ideas dance
In the Sacred Grove near Palmyra, New York, there’s hardly a tree old enough to have been
The night before, the earth had jolted us, A ripple in our sleep till Dad called it A quake and brought to life the massive plates Beneath us gnashing the ages. It was
[…] Smith and those who were only posthumously sealed to him “for eternity.” Todd Compton’s massive and path breaking, 788-page study In Sacred Loneliness provides the most comprehensive assessment yet available of the lives of thirty-three […]
[…] view. Whatever criticisms follow pale in importance to the fact that Bagley has produced this valuable book. The English-born Bullock himself mars his record with small minded complaints and petty criticism of the men around […]
[…] Why, I wondered, did she keep plugging away at a religion so at odds with her lifestyle? The answer, when it finally came, was less complicated than I had anticipated: she wanted her kids […]