Free Bubble Wrap, <Br />and Other Joys of Urban Simplicity
Anyone who has ever had a dog and a skunk on her property at the same time,
loaded hay into a loft in July, or contemplated the best way to catch a horse
Rebecca Tirrell Talbot
Rebecca Tirrell Talbot lives in Chicago, where she teaches writing courses and works in the Writing Center at North Park University.
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Virtuous Fun in the Films of Whit Stillman
Making the 12-hour road trip from Pennsylvania to Chicago, my friends and I
listened to a year-end top ten list from NPR’s David Edelstein
[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?
The Courtyards of Rebirth:<br />Oliver Sacks’s <em>Awakenings</em>, Part II
Right now, the allegory I most closely associate with Oliver Sacks
[http://www.oliversacks.com/]‘s Awakenings comes from the moment in C.S. Lewis’s
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
What Ghosts Teach:<br />Oliver Sacks’s <em>Awakenings</em>, Part I
What could being asleep for fifty years, and then awakening, teach a person
about life? You might tell me to Google Washington Irving or the Brothers Grimm
and see what lessons they intended,
One of Authenticity’s Last Great Sanctuaries?
It didn’t surprise me when Marc Smith [http://marckellysmith.com/], founder of
the poetry slam movement and host of the Uptown Poetry slam, told me that
ministers sometimes “lurk in the shadows”