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Warriors and Socks

I have some later thoughts on Beowulf -- my all time childhood favorite book. But I saw these and wanted them...awesome-insaness to knit heroic text into socks. I wonder if wearing them will make one feel stronger? Here are the...

No Putting That Genie Back In The Bottle: New Women Warriors

One of the biggest concerns I have had as the Afghan War lumbers toward a conclusion is the fear that the condition of women will worsen once the Afghan government makes it peace with the Taliban -- a precondition of...

Reading the Warrior At Wily Writers

Over the next few weeks I will be serving as a guest editor at Wily Writers, an online journal that publishes two stories a month, usually around a theme. The theme I selected for my month of May was "The...

Happy Easter and A Beautiful Spring to You All

"Beauty now for ashes wear, Perfumes for the garb of woe. Chaplets for dishevelled hair, Dances for sad footsteps slow; Open wide your hearts that they Let in joy this Easter Day." ---"Easter," by Gerald Manley Hopkins "Maiden in Contemplation,"...

Good Friday: A Time of Sorrow and of Waiting

Good Friday and a bit from John Donne's beautiful poem "Good Friday, 1613 Riding Westward." As poignant a reflection on the day as any. "Yet dare I'almost be glad, I do not see That spectacle of too much weight for...

Desert Spring

Spring in the desert is amazing. So too are the variety of blooming plants. Not just pretty wild flowers, delicate and brightly colored, but also the rugged flowers, like the leathery blossom of the palm above. Sometimes they are sticky...

Book Covers To Pant Over.

Look at these wickedly wonderful and wildly naughty book covers. I suppose this was in the era before one could rent "Debbie Does Dallas" in the back room of a video store with its lurid photographed cover. So folks actually...

Shakespeare's Sisters: An Exhibit

I shall be in Washington D.C. in May and I am planning on visiting this amazing looking exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Here's a quick description of the exhibit: "This exhibition celebrates the voices of many women, of 50...

Peter Pumpkin Eater Has Competition

Flavorwire has a hilarious set of photographs of buildings created to look like fruit. Total awesomeness. Who wouldn't want to wait for a bus in a shelter shaped like a melon above? Or a restaurant in the shape pf a...

And Other Fantasies -- Dreaming in Lingerie

One of the most successful ad campaigns (which ran for over 20 years!) was created by Maidenform Bras -- which involved surreal dreams of doing all manner of activity half undressed in one's highly constructed brassiere. You can find examples...