“American Housewife” is undoubtedly one of the funniest books I've
read for some time. These short stories imitate the parlance of our
modern day popular and online life t...
The right book, it’s said, can change your life. Some books can
alter perceptions of the world, or let a reader see life from a
perspective they may never have considered be...
Katherine Zoepf
In September, 2014, Mohra Ferak, twenty-two years old and in her final
year at Dar Al-Hekma University, in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, was
asked for advic...
In Meet the people who have volunteered to die on Mars
[http://boingboing.net/2015/02/09/meet-the-people-whove-volunt.html],
Walker Lamond writes about the thousands of people...
Major plot spoilers ahead.
Unless you live near the rarest of things — a well-funded theater
— you may not be familiar with the name Martin McDonagh. In the late
1990s a...
Last year
[http://elizabethminkel.com/post/106725093986/a-year-in-writing] I
wrote some heartfelt things about how 2014 was the year that I finally
got to start writing about ...
By Katherine Handcock, A Mighty Girl Communications Specialist
A new year always seems ripe with opportunity, and it's not just
adults who are eager to challenge themselve...
Roland, court minstrel to 12th century English king Henry II,
probably had many talents. But history has recorded only
one. Referred to variously Rowland le Sarcere, Roland...
Photo credit [https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevendepolo/3015116374]
The year is nearly over, which means it’s time for another one of
these posts — my ninth since starti...
Portland fashion insiders' hopes and dreams for 2016! by Marjorie
Skinner
THIS IS MY last Sold Out column for the Portland Mercury. (I'll still
be around, and still be invo...
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TRANSPORT
I've used Megabus countless times to go to and from London and
Bristol, but I've never used it to go ...
