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Book Review by Alice :This is the story of three sisters and their pastor father who relocate to the tiny, isolated rural parish of Garth in Garthsdale. ‘A handful of grey houses, old and small and humble’; note Sinclair’s typical style – the triple adjective description of scenes and settings. In many ways not much happens in The Three Sisters. It is more a forensic laying bare of the lives, …

Last year, I managed to slip up and not order the year’s new Hallmark book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas… which was just a reduced-size version of giant lights-and-sounds-and-pop-ups version that Hallmark had released in 2021. I had counted on them discounting the expensive book in their usual post-Christmas cheap dumping of that year’s Christmas goods… but if they put it on sale, I missed it. Apparently, though, they …

We're thinking of making stickers to go with the February 25th, 2025 release of The Artist’s Guide to Sketching. Here are five ideas. Which do you like best?

Around one in eight children aged between two and 10 in England are obese, an NHS survey published today found. New statistics show around one in seven children (15%) aged between two and 15 were obese in 2022 – similar to 2019 (16%). Obesity rates in 2022 were 12% among those aged between two and 10, […]

This designer is looking for a cheap couch that is long enough to fit a 6’5″ frame for naps. Though I appreciated the fabulous hair and perfume of the salesperson at Value City, I did not find anything that fit the bill today.Currently Listening: Typhoon “Motion and Thought”Reply via email

Story and pic here. He had an unusual scope mount and a strange idea for an eye shade....

Despite wearing my Flo Mask Pro in airports and on planes, and a KN95 in other public spaces, I now have Covid. Recently boosted, so it’s not as bad as it could be, but I’m still so sick. Starting Paxlovid tonight. Be careful out there.

With this short story by Kathy Mirkin, we continue to highlight original fiction and poetry from writers who either published their first book at 40 or after, or who have yet to publish a book. Writers interested in submitting work should see our guidelines. John McMahon/Unsplash Ruby didn’t want to hear babies cooing or crying during her train ride home to Indiana. She didn’t want to see mothers toting sloppy …

Made by enslaved Black people using oyster shells from Indigenous middens, tabby concrete reflects the flow of centuries of capital, labor, and knowledge throughout the Atlantic World. Read on Places Journal

The renowned portrait photographer reflects on his work, his relationship to philosophers, and the nature of portraiture. Continue reading → The post What the Photographer Who’s Taken Hundreds of Philosopher Portraits Really Thinks of Philosophers appeared first on Aesthetics for Birds.

Some time ago, I realized my daughter had become too heavy to carry on my shoulders. I could still do it, but it’s no longer something I’d do trivially. She doesn’t ask for it anymore either, probably sensing it wouldn’t be a good idea. She still holds my hand, tho, and I try to hold hers when I can, until she grows old enough to think parents suck or something. …

The thing I love about the ISO paper sizes, and in particular the A-size papers is that A0 is the biggest, if fold that page over you have two A1 pages, if you fold one of them over (after cutting it) you have two A2 pages etc. So if you have an A4 printer it is really easy to print things on A4 and cut it down to work with …

This postcard brings back some memories. My paternal grandparents, Amos J. and Rosa Mae Wright are buried in Forrest Cemetery, as well as Beulah Vee Wright, my dad's older sister I never met. In the late 1950s and early 1960s during the summers I would get to visit my grandparents in Gadsden for a couple of weeks. Amos was still working as yard foreman for L&N Railroad, so Rosa Mae …

There’s only one month to go before our major exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words opens. Running from 25 October 2024 to 2 March 2025, this exhibition tells the history of medieval women through their own words and uncovers their lives through manuscripts, documents and precious artefacts. Tickets for...