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- Temple festival builds Hanukkah fever (The Ithaca Journal)
ITHACA—Temple Beth-El celebrated the holiday season Sunday with fried potato pancakes, intricately painted dreidels and kid-sized menorahs made of wooden blocks, tile and construction nuts.
- Keeping our memories from the mists of Alzheimer's - Los Angeles Times
Keeping our memories from the mists of Alzheimer'sLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoNow he was loud and repetitive, greeting with raucous bursts of laughter moments from our past that weren't especially funny or that had never actually ...
- The Obama phenomenon: a dream can compel people to hold their breath ... - Times Online
Something must be wrong with me. I don’t like flying. I don’t write with a computer. I’m a peculiar traveller. I prefer to minimise the ways that I can be unduly affected, and yet here I am setting out on a long flight to America, to write ...
- Exclusive Artist Claims Burns Speaks To Him From Beyond Grave - Glasgow Sunday Mail
Exclusive Artist Claims Burns Speaks To Him From Beyond GraveGlasgow Sunday Mail, UK - 35 minutes agoBorn-again Christian Howson, 50 - now famous for religious paintings - said: "Burns is telling me what he's really like - a complete madman in a good sense. ...
- Algeria is Not So Far Away - NewsBlaze (press release)
Algeria is Not So Far AwayNewsBlaze (press release), CA - 35 minutes agoIn his younger days his poetry was published in literary journals including Solstice (England) and Beyond Baroque and Phantasm (California). Recent poems ...
- Zemanta provides amusement, embellishments for bloggers - Beta News
Bloggers who may be too pressed for time to find relevant links and images for their posts can now turn to technology. The Zemanta plug-in sifts through possibly relevant material (possibly) for things bloggers can attach to posts. The Zemanta ...
- Veterans speak of war, value of serving country - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteVeterans speak of war, value of serving countryPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 2 hours agoStudents engaged in veterans activities all last week, writing letters to local Veterans Administration hospitals, writing poetry honoring veterans and ...
- Out of Many, One (Foreign Policy Blogs)
Looking back at this election, at the moment of Barack Obama’s victory speech before a multitude of 200,000 Americans in Chicago’s Grant Park, any chronicler had to sense how special this instant was. America had been changed because of this election and would move in a different direction than had John McCain won. We didn’t [...]
- The week in higher education - Times Higher Education
The week in higher educationTimes Higher Education, UK - Oct 22, 2008The Daily Telegraph said on 16 October that "the size of Oxford's stranded deposits eclipses those of other universities also blocked from accessing funds". ...
- This weekend's group hug canceled; find affection elsewhere - Grand Rapids Press
AP File Photo Need a group hug? You may have to join a hockey team. Need a hug? I know I do. Unfortunately, you'll have to find your own affection this weekend, as a citywide group hug, initially scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday, has been canceled. We ...
- Warsaw native authors book of more than 200 poems (Keokuk Daily Gate City)
Gary Brownlee didn't do very well in English in high school. His wife, Ingrid, teaches English at Fort Madison Middle School. Brownlee isn't much for reading poetry. His wife, Ingrid, has collections of poetry at home and enjoys reading poems.
- Nature-inspired gifts - Chicago Sun-Times
Nature-inspired giftsChicago Sun-Times, United States - 7 hours agoAn artist hand-makes each of these whimsical twig letters and calls them functional poetry. It just shows how recycling can be a beautiful thing. ...
- Havurah founder drowns (Ashland Daily Tidings)
Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield, the founder in 1985 of Ashland's Havurah Shir Hadash — and its rabbi for the first 10 years — drowned Tuesday while snorkeling in Mexico, where he and his wife, Beth, were attending the wedding of a son.
- A sense of place - The Observer
A sense of placeThe Observer, UK - 5 hours agoPlace isn't the only poetry available to you to describe people's lives, but it is a poetry. For The Gathering, I selected two places in Dublin that mean a ...
- Literary group gets $2m grant - The Chronicle Herald
NEW YORK — Poets & Writers, a nonprofit literary organization, has received a US$2 million donation to support its Jackson Poetry Prize, a $50,000 award founded in 2007 for emerging American poets. "Receiving this generous gift during such a ...
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