5/23/2023 0 Comments The night swim by megan goldinI hugged her withered waist as he told her what he had to say. “Ma’am, I don’t know how to tell you other than to say it straight.” The policeman spoke in the low-pitched melancholic tone he’d used moments earlier when he’d pulled up and told me to wait in the patrol car as its siren lights painted our house streaks of red and blue.ĭespite his request, I’d slipped out of the back seat and rushed to Mom’s side as she turned on the front porch light and stepped onto the stoop, dazed from being woken late at night. “It’s Jenny, isn’t it?” Mom rasped, clutching the lapel of her faded dressing gown. But I saw the will to live drain out of her the moment the policeman knocked on our screen door. Killed her as good as if she’d been shot in the chest with a twelve-gauge shotgun. It was Jenny’s death that killed my mother. ’Twas a thousand pities that it should have happened to she, of all others.
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5/23/2023 0 Comments The owls of the eastern iceHe snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. No scientist had seen a Blakiston's fish owl so far south in a hundred years. I saw my first Blakiston's fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia. Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk, in Kirkus Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you." "A terrifically exciting account of time in the Russian Far East studying Blakiston's fish owls, huge, shaggy-feathered, yellow-eyed, and elusive birds that hunt fish by wading in icy water. Winner of the Peace Corps Worldwide Special Book AwardĪ Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The BirdBooker Report, Geographical, Open Letter Reviewīest Nature Book of the Year: The Times (London) Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General NonfictionĪ Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 5/23/2023 0 Comments Snow White by Matt PhelanThese updated details, along with Phelan’s gray-wash/sepia treatment, bring out the resident darkness of the story: an insinuating ticker-tape machine stands in for the magic mirror, seven street kids for seven dwarfs, a police detective for a prince, Macy’s Christmas window display for a glass coffin. Having a strange power to unsettle the wits of ordinary people, the stepmother orders a stage hand to murder the girl. At Father’s death-under ominous circumstances-Snow returns home from boarding school to receive a bountiful inheritance, which her stepmother longs to get her hands on. When her mother died, her father was bewitched (not just in the figurative sense) by a Broadway phenomenon, star of the Zeigfield Follies. Samantha White, nicknamed Snow, is the beloved daughter of a respected Wall Street financier. Snow White: a Graphic Novel by Matt Phelan. In this fairy-tale retelling, Snow White is updated to the late 1920s, with the stock-market crash and the early days of the Great Depression shaping the narrative. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Pell fredaThis photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos You may not upload any more photos to this memorial Visitation will be held on Tuesday from 5 - 8 pm at the funeral home and Wednesday prior to the service from 11:30 - 12:45 pm at the church. In lieu of flowers, the family asks you to consider memorial contributions to the Pine Rest Patient Assistance Fund. The funeral service will be held 1 pm Wednesday, Februat Cutlerville East Christian Reformed Church, 501 68th St. Freda will be lovingly remembered by her husband of 66 years, Ray her children, Kathy Pell, Nancy and Dennis Schreur, Keith and Jan Pell eight grandchildren, Kim (Jeff) Barr, Andy (Tara) Schreur, Pete (Annie) Schreur, Karen (Todd) Hoekstra, Rob Pell, Jamie Pell, Mike (Lisa) Dozeman, Katie Dozeman 15 great-grandchildren sister, Helen Wisner sister-in-law, Betty Speet brother-in-law, Carl Hall several nieces and nephews and special family friend, Nancy Carter. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Michele Dozeman. Freda Pell, age 87, of Cutlerville, went to her heavenly home on Sunday, February 15, 2015. Denmark is the happiest nation in the world and Meik puts this largely down to them living the hygge way. It is those cold, crisp blue sky mornings when the light through your window is just right. It that feeling when you are sharing good, comfort food with your closest friends, by candle light and exchanging easy conversation. Hygge is the feeling you get when you are cuddled up on a sofa with a loved one, in warm knitted socks, in front of the fire, when it is dark, cold and stormy outside. The definitive guide to the Danish wellbeing concept, Hygge, from happiness expert and CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen The Danish word hygge is one of those beautiful words that doesn't directly translate into English, but it more or less means comfort, warmth or togetherness. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Torch song trilogy estelle gettyResistant audience members may experience Arnold’s heart-on-his-sleeve dramatizing as too much self-ennobling opera. world (Before RuPaul) that Fierstein introduced us to no longer looks so unfamiliar, the feelings the play evokes, about being the other and yet longing for the conventional consolations of family and self-respect, remain affectingly on point.ĭirector Michael Kahn, best known in these parts as artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, is moonlighting for the occasion at Studio Theatre, where his “Torch Song” finds a most comfortable and invigorating home. And because to tease out of the endearing, 3 1 / 2-hour “Torch Song” any modicum of satisfaction, a director must find his or her perfect Arnold, the nervy, needy, mouthy queen of Fierstein’s ambitions, to give voice to men who simply want to be who they are.Įxpressing this idea on a mainstream stage was a far more exotic pursuit in 1982, when “Torch Song Trilogy” opened at Broadway’s Little Theatre (later rechristened the Helen Hayes), with Fierstein playing Arnold and Estelle Getty as his tsunami-on-rye of a Jewish mother. Why, you ask? Because this actor of impeccable dryness and ridiculously thick hair is an Arnold Beckoff for all (theater) seasons. I say unto you that henceforward, the program of every new production of “Torch Song Trilogy” - Harvey Fierstein’s groundbreaking comedy of gay American aspiration - should contain the words “Brandon Uranowitz.” 5/22/2023 0 Comments The haunted book danielle vegaWhile I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed The Merciless series, it was quick, easy to get into, and definitely made me want to keep reading-this book and the series. Review: Danielle Vega is a horror master. With help from the mysterious boy next door, Hendricks makes it her mission to take down the ghosts. And, then, one night, things take a violent turn. Voices whisper in her ear as she lays in bed. But Hendricks isn’t sure if it’s the demons of her past haunting her …or of the present. Hendricks learns from new friends at school that Steele House–the fixer upper her parents are so excited about–is notorious in town. Forget him. But things don’t go as planned. Hendricks wants to lay low and forget her dark, traumatic past. That’s what Hendricks Becker-O’Malley’s parents said when they moved their family to the tiny town of Drearfield, New York. The Haunted (The Haunted #1) by Danielle Vega 5/22/2023 0 Comments Lucky Girl by Violet IvyNot all name meanings are positive, of course. Many parents search for name meanings that symbolize a quality that's important to them - names that mean new beginnings, for instance, or names that mean life - and work backwards to find a name that fits. The meanings of names, whether obvious or hidden, have become more rather than less popular in recent years. Baby names such as True and Ivy and Bear mean as names exactly what they mean as words. Modern name meanings are often obvious, since many of today's unique baby names are created from words or nature or spiritual qualities. Traditional name meanings often relate to physical characteristics, like hair color, or dwelling places. The most popular name meanings include names that mean hope, names meaning love, and names that mean strength or power. We've gathered lists of names with meanings, including girl names, boy names, and unisex names. Name meanings might be bold or hidden, easy to understand or difficult to pinpoint. There’s a certain genius to just how monstrous this world is, and it made me genuinely uncomfortable at times. All the cis people are rabid bigots or literal monsters and trans people are caught in the crossfire, constantly defending themselves? Good plotting, vivid images, and characters that fascinate even when you can’t stand them.īut on the other hand, c’mon now. War ensues, with two very different trans women–Beth and Fran–taking center stage despite their difficult personal relationship. Instead of banding together to protect themselves from the monster-men, an alarming number of the cis women are TERFs and make it their mission to hunt down and eradicate the remaining trans people out of pure spite. The only people left are women and a few trans men who weren’t on T when the pestilence hit. In the near future, a plague turns anyone with high testosterone into a literal violent, dangerous, disgusting beast. On the one hand, it’s a gender parable wrapped in dystopian horror. I’m not sure I know what I think about this book. In the interest of practicing what I preach, before you read this review, I’ll direct you here and here to two reviews by readers that made me consider my perspective a little more closely.) (EDIT: I tend not to read other reviews before I write my own, and it’s come to my attention that there are a lot of trans readers and writers that have very pointed #ownnormal critiques of this book. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Guha india after gandhiThough Nehru’s successors attempted to put beneficial programs in place, including much-needed land reform, they have in the main been no match for him, Guha further suggests. India’s first postindependence government was marked by Jawaharlal Nehru’s admirable determination, in the face of the violence accompanying the partition of India and Pakistan, to establish India as “a democratic secular State where all citizens enjoy full rights and are equally entitled to the protection of the State, irrespective of the religion to which they belong.” Nehru, highly regarded for his statesmanlike and reasonable views, did not want partition in the first place it came about, Guha suggests, for several reasons, not least a long tendency for India’s Hindu majority to underestimate the nation’s massive Muslim population. But, writes essayist Guha, the question is, what sort of democracy? India is indeed the world’s largest democracy. |