I’ve read and enjoyed every last one of these books when I was in elementary school. I even have several of them in my personal collection. Now I understand their literary merit and how much they have influenced my development. My past teachers recommended many to me, and now I recommend these to any young ...
Ethan Hawke is perhaps the most under celebrated actor of our time. While the tabloids (and untold numbers of teenage girls) fawn over characters like Brad Pitt and Jude Law, Ethan Hawke maintains relative anonymity in the metropolis of New York City. Although he’s been nominated twice for academy awards, he has yet to win. ...
If you plan to give gifts to a bedridden friend, it is essential that you get to know that person well. I have a brother-in-law who is constantly wondering what to do with inappropriate gifts that clutter his already too small bedroom; gifts that were chosen with no thought to what might interest him, or ...
When Chris McCandless died four months after embarking on his Alaskan odyssey, critics accused him of being crazy and stupid, but as pointed out in Jon Krakauer;s Into the Wild and Henry Ticknor’s “Death of an Innocent”, McCandless was quite the intellectual. What led to his demise, however, was the fact that he so deeply ...
A Brief History of Surfing It is unknown when exactly the sport of surfing began in the islands of Hawai’i. It is known that by 1778, the year Captain Cook and his crews became the first Europeans to see Hawai’i, that surfing was a sport well entrenched within Hawaiian culture and had been around for ...
I have a friend who says she’ll only go out with one other woman at a time –Dyads–she calls them. Why? She says when women are together in groups of 3 or 4, there’s a noticeable jockeying for power akin to the alpha dog tactics in animal groups. She doesn’t trust them, for she says: ...
Once again, Jack London shocked me with his amazing writing on nature and animals. White Fang is a spectacular book that will leave you begging for more. It is a book on the lives of a generation of wolves, but eventually centers around one wolf, White Fang. He is born into the world in a ...