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Around the Interwebs: What I’m Reading This Week

Every morning, I try to read something compelling or entertaining. It started out as a Lenten discipline to make me less angry about current events and more aware of my surroundings; but it only took a few weeks of dedicated reading time to remind me that there is some interesting and thought-provoking writing happening every … Continue reading »

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Nothing Good Gets Away: John Steinbeck on Love

Among American authors, I have considered John Steinbeck the pick of the litter for some time. In addition to authoring his best-known books, Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden and Of Mice and Men, the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner also wrote more than 850 letters in his lifetime. Those are the facts that … Continue reading »