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Mar.28.2013 Urban Bus Anthropology: Waiting With the Spuds I take lots of buses in New York. I have always preferred buses to trains and I try to make sure I have a book or a few sale catalogs to read while I go from Point A to Point B. Buses have come a long way since I moved here many years ago, no pun intended. They are heated and...	May.02.2012 Consequences of naming kids after states, cities So I was watching a news show where Savannah Guthrie was slated to be talk to Dakota Fanning and wondering why some cities and states rate baby names and others do not. I love Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but I’ve never heard of man named Pittsburgh Smith or a woman named Pennsylvania Barnes....
Nov.22.2011 List Of Top Ten Literary Cities Via National Geographic Well, no city in Canada made the cut (though two in the USA did). So it is not restricted to the Old World - just poorly aimed. I did, for years, live in Fredericton, New Brunswick, which had its own "Poets Corner". And a nice li'l cluster of dead poets in a specific graveyard. With a tale of one...	Jul.22.2011 Fatal Living He was dead. For a day. Two days? I, too, do not recall. This was days after the blasts. In a crowded area where cars, buses ply, and people walk about reaching destinations, a cabbie’s body went unnoticed. Had he been a victim, he might have been seen. The concerned city kills people everyday. It...
Jan.13.2011 The Most Literate Cities In The US of A D.C. tops rankings for USA's most literate cities by Mary Beth Marklein EnlargeBy Pablo Martinez Monsivais, APPresident Obama reads to students during a visit to Long Branch Elementary in Arlington, Va. on Dec. 17, 2010. Washingtonians are the nation's most well-read citizens, but...	Dec.01.2010 Kafka And Prague And Other Literary Heroes The literary heroes of PragueStarGazerBy HAU BOON LAI In the historical city of Prague, cultural icons like Franz Kafka and Antonin Dvorak have a certain cachet that is lacking in Hollywood celebrities. THE Czech Republic’s capital city of Prague is touted in tourist literature as the...
Sep.06.2010 Of Writers and Recluses In some distant corners, the border bushlands of Botswana, for example, there are writers so unaccustomed to human contact that they journey into London for their book tours only to jump at sidewalk cracks, thinking puff adders are underfoot. Authors living in remote Rocky Mountain cabins built...	Sep.25.2008 Four Things About Me With thanks to Sean Morris and more... Four jobs I have had in my life: 1. library literacy program coordinator2. banker in Mexico (egads)3. chamber maid on a beautiful island (didn't last long) 4. clerk in a kite store on a beautiful island (ahh, much better) Four movies I've watched more than...
Jun.11.2008 Multi-generations much happiness makes Personally, I would not like to live in a "retirement" community, where other aging folks reflect back to me on a daily basis the image of my growing older. Mentally, I am much younger than my chronological years, or so I believe, maybe twenty-nine or so. I believe part of what keeps me...