A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
How our life ends isn’t always up to us, but that question too often must be answered by loved ones and health care workers who don’t know what we would want.
Ayman Chaudhary turned her love for reading into a living on TikTok, posting video snippets about books like those banned in schools in ultra-conservative parts of the United States.Now the online platform she relies on to support her family is poised to be banned in what entrepreneurs using TikTok condemn as an attack on their livelihoods. It's so essential to small businesses and creators; it's my full-time job, the 23-year-old Chicago resident told AFP. It makes me really worried that I live...
Kent State University Trumbull Campus hosted an event called Stop the Bleed teaching people how to help if they come across someone with life-threatening bleeding
We’d like to hear from people who have been purchasing luxury goods and experiences in recent years, and how they feel about their spending habitsWe’re interested to hear about people’s spending habits in the area of upmarket or luxury goods, services and experiences, and whether they are generally happy with their spending on non-essentials.We’d like to know whether you have spent money on expensive non-essential items such as designer clothing, high end housewares, luxury holidays, expensive...
Having a baby led to an unexpected disease and then surgery that altered Lauren Bensted’s body for ever. She talks about the pain she felt in being separated from her newborn, and her journey to learn to accept her new life“We’re going to have to disconnect you,” says the man at my bedside. Since I was hospitalised a fortnight ago, this man and his team have been trying to save my colon, a 5ft-long tangle of ulcers and inflammation. The speed and scale of my colon’s fury has fascinated doctors....
Putin Did Not Order Alexei Navalny's Death, US Intelligence Finds In a surprising turn, The Wall Street Journal has issued a new weekend report saying that US intelligence agencies do not believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin planned or ordered the death of opposition activist and politician Alexei Navalny. "U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Putin likely didn’t order Navalny to be killed at the notoriously brutal prison camp in February, people familiar with...
The three-day event is geared towards getting people to talk more openly about death and their fears surrounding death and dying
“Some of us live and some of us die Someday God is going to tell us why I don’t travel much, least of all for social engagement, but it was both a duty and a pleasure to travel to Iperu in Ogun State on Easter Saturday to attend the 90th birthday celebration ofMrsOmobosolaOnaeko, mother to
In the 1990s, Wall Street was very enthusiastic about the internet — and lost a ton of money because of that enthusiasm.
It's Cicadageddon, and we're just living in it.