Without warning/As a whirlwind swoops on an oak/Love shakes my heart
Sappho of Lesbos: Great Sluts of History
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Last Month I Helped Someone Die
How I helped my friend use California’s Death With Dignity Act to exit life on her own terms, and what I learned from the experience.
5 Reasons to Come to the LA Times FOB
You don’t need a reason to come to the LA Times Festival of Books – but I’m offering FIVE.
Choose That Meme! Lessons from a Jigsaw Puzzle
Viewed from the vantage point of the cliff, Horseshoe Bend is extremely unusual. But when you’re going through it, it doesn’t appear especially striking. Just another winding twist of the river, of which there are plenty.
To appreciate it fully, you have to experience it both up close, and get some distance from it and look back.
The Return of the Zombie Manuscript
Joyce’s father, now deceased, had also attempted a novel, a Western, back in the day. She thought that Uncle Ralph might enjoy reading it, so she dug into the boxes she’d been hauling across multi states for decades, took it to FedEx/Kinko’s, and had them bind it into a real book for him.