In this short essay – a letter to his son on his 16th birthday – my partner Porter Stansberry provides some good advice about making important life decisions.
Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare Probably written between 1591 and 1596 Both film versions of West Side Story (1961 and 1921) are very good in so many ways. But watching them, I was constantly reminded…
The Blue Streak By Ellen Lesser 242 pages Published in 1992 by Grove Press The Blue Streak was a book I selected randomly from the bookshelves of our home in Nicaragua. I decided to read it because (1) it was…
A collection of several hundred poems illustrated (apparently for children) by Jon J. Muth. I found “Ozymandias” again here and put it to memory, which was a great joy for me.
A synopsis of the plot that I found on Shmoop.com crystalizes my initial impression of this tender, teenage novel: “Dying girl meets hot boy. Hot boy and dying girl fall in teenage love and go on adventures to…
The US produces more garbage per capita than any other nation in the world. In this article from The New York Times, Jake Halpern explains how scrappers are turning that waste into a $32 billion business. LINK