Poem by Ansel Elkins ( Read more... )

Formerly titled "How to Live With my Body" by john roedel www.johnroedel.com

my brain and heart divorced a decade ago
over who was
to blame about how big of a mess I have become( Read more... )

An Early Copy of the Magna Carta Was Found Forgotten in an Old Scrapbook
An archivist in England stumbled upon a 715-year-old edition of the charter credited for initiating a new framework of governance

By Laura Clark
smithsonian.com
February 10, 2015

You got 'Invictus' by William Earnest Henley ( Read more... )

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/08/25/the-psychology-of-writing-daily-routine/

Maybe that's why I'm so into routines. It would be nice to get the writing going, too, though.

I never had this in high school or college, so this is the first time I've read it. I was telling immemor that, when I've seen bits & pieces of it televised I always thought the way that the character of Huckeberry Finn spoke was an affectation on the part of the producers. I had no idea that it was part of the writing style that Mark Twain used ( Read more... )

Grandiloquent Word of the Day: Inkhornism (INK•horn•iz•im) Noun: -Overworking something such as a piece of writing. -Pedantry -A show of knowledge. -Unimaginative or unduly emphasis of minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge. -Undue display of learning. -Slavish attention to rules, details, etc. A literary composition of the sixteenth ( Read more... )

It's all that writer stuff. Looks fun:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/authors_anonymous/trailers/11197715/

http://www.businessinsider.com/books-that-changed-history-2013-12?op=1Miriam Tuliao, assistant director of central collection development at the New York Public Library, helped us come up with a list of 25 books that changed the course of history ( Read more... )

I didn't realize that Billy Connolly came up with the line I think of when I think of what the meaning of "intellectual" is: "My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger ( Read more... )