Several years ago I purchased my first Moleskine notebook. I’d seen them advertised somewhere: “the notebook that Hemingway used.” The original manufacturer of moleskine type notebooks quit production in the 1980s, and British novelist Bruce Chatwin famously bought out everyone… Read More ›
“MS” magazine used to feature children’s stories that had a feminist slant. I have two daughters, and so I enjoyed reading them the stories picked by “MS”. I was surprised one issue though to open it up to see a… Read More ›
Recently a man found “whale vomit” that was worth $50,000. The vomit is known as ambergris. I knew what ambergris was without having to look it up, as I had looked it up years ago. That’s because one of my… Read More ›
