This week’s postcard comes to you from the British Museum, home of the score of Handel’s Messiah and the world’s oldest known chess set and the ever-contentious Elgin Marbles. But I wasn’t there to see any of these wonderful displays. I was there because I was in exactly the right place at precisely the right time … Continue reading Postcards from London: The Best Day Ever.
This week, I read an article in which an author described how, after submitting a novel to agents and publishers and receiving discouraging responses from the few who responded to her at all, she decided to submit her novel to the same group of people posing as a male author. She received several responses right … Continue reading Saturdays @ the South: Women & Fiction
Get ready for the upcoming performances in the library’s Summer Concert Series! Concerts are at 7 p.m. every Thursday night in July and August at East End Veterans Memorial Park. Every Monday, Free for All will offer an article about, or interview with, the band of the week. The following is an interview with Jake … Continue reading Summer Concert Series: Semi-Aquatic Rodent
We’ve had a number of readers come in looking to fulfill their summer reading lists lately, and it got me to thinking…..When I was in school, I hated summer reading lists. Loathed them with a passion it is difficult to put into words. This is mostly because I refused to be told what to read, and under … Continue reading Summer Reading, off the list
The year 1917 was a difficult one worldwide. The First World War was draining the finances, manpower, and morale all the major European nations; the United States was dealing with an economic slump; the Russian Empire was crumbling under the weight of poor leadership and the rising tide of young revolutionaries. But on June 23, … Continue reading “Just get us through this inning”…