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Lessons Learned: Love in the Time of Cholera
I have had the extreme privilege of studying this semester with Da Chen, writer of the memoirs Colors of the Mountain and Sounds of the River, and of the novel Brothers (review coming soon!) When we were assembling my reading list for the semester, he strongly recommended that I add Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera. His exact words were: “I think it is the perfect novel.” … Read entire article »
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4 Steps to Being True to Yourself: Lessons from Stargirl
I work for a company that produces binoculars. (It’s random, I know.) A few weeks ago we had a mandatory office bird watch. We met at nearby Blydenburgh Park at 8:30. It was cloudy and approximately 40 degrees. (This is standard mid-April weather in New York. Just one of the many reasons I miss living in Durham.) My coworkers who’d been on these walks before joked about the instructor before … Read entire article »
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Ever stand in the bookstore or library, gazing around blankly, overwhelmed by choices, jealous of the other purposeful browsers? This blog is for you.
I read. A lot.
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