The Sill of the World

Title: The Advocate Author: Janet Frame Where I Read It: Prizes Ted is super helpful. On a busy street, he assists people with disabilit...

Title: Come Dance with Me in Ireland Author: Shirley Jackson Where I read it: World Literature: An Anthology of Great Short Stories, Drama...

bullion Golden bars of sunlight on deep green grass. cachinnate When I learn with her, and we're sitting with our books in front of us, ...

abstruse It's like reading The Jabberwocky, only no fun at all - a highly technical book with lots of (to me it seems) made-up words. I...

Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) starts this evening, and I'm reading these words now from Abraham Joshua Heschel's book God in Sea...