In his first poem, Fulbright Scholars, Ted Hughes predicts the wonderful disaster that would be his romance with Sylvia Plath: It was the first peach I ever tasted I could hardly believe how delicious At twenty-five I was dumbfounded By my ignorance of the Simplest things Published in 1998, [...]
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Ah, another week begins…. I’m always a tad down on Sundays. There’s something so final and fatal about it. I know that once the new week begins everything will turn out alright, but I still… It’s sad to see the weekend slip away. Here are a few cool quotes to get you back in fighting [...]
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I think I’m a fairly capable writer. During class or in meetings that go on far too long than they should, I’m also an excellent doodler. I can make caricatures, stars, landscapes—whole new worlds, in fact—on my lined yellow pad. And with my ability to look as though I’m seriously listening and jotting down notes, [...]
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I always looked forward to weekends in Berlin. Those were the days I would allow myself to wander. I’d even purposefully let myself get lost: If the way home was to turn right, I would go left. Whether it was a perfect day or freezing out, whether I was gung-ho, hungover, or just feeling plain [...]
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I miss Berlin. It’s funny how I ended up moving to a city that I hadn’t even planned on visiting. I was on the first leg of my solo backpacking trip, in Paris, and things had gotten a bit chaotic. I needed to leave and hopped on the first train out. It was the train [...]
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Told through the eyes of a food-loving kid, Merlinda Bobis’ A Banana Heart Summer uses traditional Filipino fare to whet the appetite and comfort the soul. Set in the 1960s, the free-spirited Nenita, whose eyes widen at the sight of Nana Dora’s deep-fried caramelized bananas, seems like any other 12 year old. Yet, her kitchen [...]
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