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- The Balanced Life: 19 Tips for Cheering Yourself Up -- From 200 ... - Huffington Post
Huffington PostThe Balanced Life: 19 Tips for Cheering Yourself Up -- From 200 ...Huffington Post, NY - 6 hours agoDon't expect too much from human life--a sorry business at the best. 12th. Avoid poetry, dramatic representations (except comedy), music, serious novels, ...
- New works of poetry inspired by Katrina (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Don't miss this fine collection, which comes accompanied by a CD of performances by the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars, featuring special guests such as Harry Shearer and John Boutte. That spooky, mystical klezmer music is perfect for these poems, such acerbic and witty portraits of post-Katrina life.
- Great-grandmother Harriet and a woman's right to vote (The Gilroy Dispatch)
This week we celebrate the 88th anniversary of American women winning the right to vote.
- Serenity Prayer's authorship disputed (The News & Observer)
Generations of recovering alcoholics, soldiers, weary parents, exploited workers and just about anybody feeling beaten down by life have found solace in a short prayer that begins: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."
- South Africa: That Attack On Fellow Africans in South Africa (AllAfrica.com)
The recent spate of xenophobic display, atrocity and hideous attack on their African brothers by South Africans looking for survival is disappointing, discouraging and very barbaric.
- Poetry column: Being first is all it's cracked up to be - Evening Sun
Little did I anticipate when I accepted an invitation by Janet Lohr to read and talk about my poetry to the Poet's Corner at Cross Keys Village this past Monday that the evening would include several "firsts." This was the first time in my tenure to ...
- Halifax, NS | Sun, August 17th, 2008 - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Halifax, NS | Sun, August 17th, 2008TheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 4 hours agoApplications in all disciplines are welcome including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, writing for children and young adults and short fiction. ...
- You've been mangoed - Mohammed Hanif - The List
The ListYou've been mangoed - Mohammed HanifThe List, UK - 40 minutes ago... a silk-shirted, poetry-loving yoga fan, mincing his way around the military barracks. When he disappears, an official enquiry is launched and his friend ...
- Columbus-born boxer to be honored with marker - The Commercial Dispatch
Columbus-born boxer to be honored with markerThe Commercial Dispatch, MS - 5 hours ago... “The Pittsburgh Kid” (1941) and “Joe Palooka, Champ” (1946) and released “Gloves, Glory and God,” his autobiography in 1956, and a book of poetry, ...
- I’m not a street entertainer — Sarshar Siddiqui - DAWN Group
The traditional love-hate triangle is missing in veteran poet and writer Sarshar Siddiqui’s poetry. There is no woman in it that is as tall as a pine tree with a waist thinner than a strand of hair, a pair of almond-shaped eyes deep and azure as a ...
- Making opera from the words of Emily Dickinson (San Jose Mercury News)
When her mother gave her a book of Dickinson's work as a birthday present, Dill was so overcome by the imagery that the words seared into her mind. Dickinson's poetry has served as her muse ever since, surfacing again and again in her innovative, text-infused multimedia projects encompassing sculpture, painting, photography, performance art, and now opera.
- Gay and lesbian film fest has several Bay Area connections - Contra Costa Times
A psychic (Zoe Tapper) does some time in prison in "Affinity." A Concord man emotionally recounts how he felt when his son became his daughter. A former Albany woman digs through numerous photos and letters while trying to figure out if her great ...
- David Archuleta's 'Crush' is surprisingly good! - Popwatch
I was not a huge fan of David Archuleta during his tenure on American Idol 's seventh season. Sure, as Randy Jackson reminded us (over and over and over), the kid could "sing the phone book," but frankly, a weekly rundown of surnames and seven-digit ...
- RAW Deal Looms for Taxpayers Unless Terminator and Lawmakers Act Fast - Santa Barbara Independent
del.icio.us. It’s nut-cutting time in Sacramento, to paraphrase famed wordsmith Dick Nixon, as California politicians face an August 1 deadline, when further dithering over the stalemated state budget will start having real-world financial ...
- Special flowers make a blooming good present - Beeld
A BOUQUET of flowers can work as the perfect gift for almost any occasion. But some flowers are more suited to certain occasions than others – and not realising this is a serious faux pas. A lover or someone who wants to express romantic love makes ...
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