A recently released cookbook seeks to explore Jaffna cooking, the native cuisine of Sri Lanka. The book seeks to explore and celebrate the culture of the small island nation, while also fusing in elements of remembrance of the country's 26-year civil war. The war ended in 2009 with the defeat of the … [Read more...]

Recently there has been some insight that has been given into the aspect of one hostages daughter and the traumatic experience that shaped the life in particular of Sulome Anderson. In more detail to this aspect in general when it comes to Anderson, as far back as she can remember which is maybe … [Read more...]

Ruth Franklin definitely pulled no punches when she describes author Shirley Jackson life from birth to adulthood in the novel titled" Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life:it unravels Shirley's life as lonely, unhappy and sometimes depressing and feeling out of place. But her life as a writer was … [Read more...]

What do you get when you put together a very clean and proper elderly man and a very sloppy and lazy striped cat? Hilarity, of course! This story is about an unlikely friendship between an old man and an abandoned cat that shows us that sometimes the things we really need in our lives are dropped in … [Read more...]

A room that is no more a room but resembles more of a tomb. You are still alive, wasting away in your cell, day and night refusing the simplest of jesters and food. Your nurse can hardly bear it. Watching you like a crow as if counting down the seconds for you. This is the story of young girl in … [Read more...]

This blog post is about two things. The history of how the fruit in question made its way to the united states in one point, and another point is how and who had a hand in making the banana a 'famous' fruit. The banana came from Cuba and was made well known in the south by a lady who in a desperate … [Read more...]