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Oct.05.2012 Resolutions, September's 2012 reads of a pedometer geek With September comes fall, and generally a fall from continuing New Year's resolutions. In one aspect, that was true. For another, it wasn't. My pedometer didn't get the workout that I wanted. I wanted to make my goal of 10,000 steps every day, and 300,000 for the month, but...	Feb.25.2012 Honesty In Memoir A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway image via thehemingwayproject.com I hadn’t given this book a read in many years, and so after reading Hemingway’s Boat, I decided to take it on again. It’s funny, but it was as if I had never read it the first time. I think that...
Feb.13.2012 Special Days and Months In honor of Black History Month: On February 13, 1907, Cincinnati newspaper founder Wendell P. Dabney published The Union. Its motto, "For no people can become great without being united, for in union there is strength." (source: I, Too, Sing America) Tomorrow is Valentine's Day so I decided...	Aug.20.2011 The Lost Generation in My Living Room If you want to come to my next book group in which we discuss both the 2011 novel The Paris Wife by Paula McClain and Ernest Hemingway's memoir A Moveable Feast, be prepared to know the difference between Gloria Steinem and Gertrude Stein. I mention this because book group leader...
May.04.2011 McClain's 'Paris Wife' is the first Mrs. Hemingway's story She was seven years his senior when they met through a friend in 1920s Chicago, but even at 21, a young Ernest Hemingway was instantly drawn to Ms. Hadley Richardson of St. Louis. So much so, he became obsessed and asked for her hand, claiming years later he'd known all along "she was the girl...