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
Out in West Texas, a pair of aspiring novelists and enterprising small-town newspaper owners, Barbara Brannon and Kay Ellington, were dismayed by the number of publications that were dropping book sections, cutting critics, and otherwise decimating literary coverage, especially in the Lone Star State. By the 2010s, “93 percent of the state’s newspapers offer no […]
Apple’s new drama series Franklin, starring Michael Douglas as the founding father, recalls a vital time in US history as he travelled abroad for help“A long life has taught me that diplomacy must never be a siege but a seduction,” says Michael Douglas’s Benjamin Franklin, raising a wine glass in a world of candlelit tables, baroque music and powdered wigs. “Think of America as a courted virgin. One that does not solicit favours but grants them. And nothing speaks to romance quite as loudly as a...
The Japanese icon has suffered extensive front-end and passenger-side damage. A look at the odometer reveals the NSX has been driven 91,903 miles (~147,900 km) since new. Powering first-gen NSXs like this one is a 3.0-liter naturally-aspirated V6. When it was new, this JDM 1991 Honda NSX would have been an absolute joy to drive but sadly, it has seen better days and is in desperate need of some TLC. We recently stumbled across this NSX while browsing through IAAI. First-generation models like...
An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper transitioned from traffic detail to life-saving measures when he encountered a gunshot victim this past winter.
Home energy improvements let you save on electricity bills while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
There have been some people noticing that the Google Notes On Search labs experiment has an end date of May 2024 and thus they are expecting Notes on Search to be turned off by then. Just because it has that end date listed, it does not mean the labs experiment will end on that date.As a reminder, the Google Search Generative Experience SGE labs experiment had listed an end date of December 2023. But then came December and Google decided to remove the date and extended SGE as a labs...
"Sometimes you start a book and never end it" - a day in the life of 911
From house plants and gardens to fields and forests, green is the color we most associate with surface life on Earth, where conditions favored the evolution of organisms that perform oxygen-producing photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll a.
Boeing's first Starliner mission carrying two astronauts is now officially a go for its May 6 Launch.
Teaching local students how to save lives is the goal of a new pilot program in Hawaii public schools by instructing keiki how to perform CPR and properly use AED machines.
A group of strangers jumped into action to help save a man’s life after he was riding his bicycle and collapsed.