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The Internet: A Dark Alley

by Lindsey Anderson on October 23, 2008

Situation:
I wanted to write a post about a newspaper article that I saw today. I think it was going to be a pretty good post, maybe even witty. But in order to even search for the article, I had to make a user name and password at the newspaper’s site. Well, I don’t know if […]

The Tragic but Humerous Misuse of Punctuation

by Lindsey Anderson on October 21, 2008

I came across this blog a while ago (likely it was forwarded to me by a fellow grammarian!) and recently revisited it. Not demeaning, whiny, or overzealous, “The ‘Blog’ of ‘Unecessary’ Quotation Marks” displays contributed photos of quotation marks that have been abused. The title of the blog alone speaks for what you will find […]

Ultimate Betrayal

by Jacqueline on October 21, 2008

Trying to remember, I have learned,
is like trying to clutch a handful of fog.
Trying to forget,
like trying to hold back the monsoon.
–Patricia McCormick

In Sold, a National Book Award Finalist, McCormick tells a prose narrative (although it reads like verse) through the eyes of a Nepalese girl who was sold into sex slavery. The harrowing tale […]

Well aware

by Jacqueline on October 19, 2008

You’ve heard the statistics.
You wear pink in October. You race for the cure.
But have you seen the art cancer has inspired? In Virginian Linda Weatherly’s art exhibit “Exposure,” she “reflects how [her] body and psyche felt as well as the emotional struggle of coming to terms with feeling less-than-whole as a single-breasted woman,” according to […]

Our book webpage is set up!

by Edward Atkinson on October 12, 2008

Here is the webpage for Documenting the Unseen. This is the page we’ll be updating with info on the book, but more importantly, the page where you’ll be able to buy a copy when we publish! I set up an e-mail notification system, so that you can be notified the day we publish without having […]

What Is Real?

by Lindsey Anderson on October 10, 2008

“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by
side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does
it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that
happens to you. When a child […]

Experience = Time + Paying Attention

by Edward Atkinson on October 9, 2008

Henry Ford: assembly line, mass production, big business. Ford made changes in business that have permanently shaped the growth and wealth of every developing nation in the world. He changed the daily lives of millions of people and left a permanent mark that spread all around the globe.
He was an innovator.
Innovators are people that make […]

Morbid but Cute Little Bunnies

by Lindsey Anderson on October 6, 2008

Author Andy Riley was onto something when he put together”The Book of Bunny Suicides”. I’m an animal lover, but somehow manage to get a kick out of these comics. They’re kind of like Hellen Keller jokes, if you catch my drift …
As Wikipedia so concisely puts it, “Each cartoon shows one or more white rabbits […]

What’s practical?

by Lindsey Anderson on October 3, 2008

“Happiness is the only practical thing there is.”
- Quote from a friend
I was debating on whether or not following a certain dream and passion of mine makes sense. This response made me look at it as something truly worthwhile.

Hard

by Jacqueline on October 1, 2008

On this crisp fall morning, a teacher from my high school passed from terminal cancer.
She is a mother of three. I say is, not was, because she is still those children’s mother. She brought life to this world.
Who comes, goes, or stays (and when) is still illogical to me.
Life appears to be this continuum of […]

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