If you have yet to eat your breakfast, dinner, or lunch, do NOT read on. Save this for a moment when your digestion is sturdier.
A teacher in Milan was suspended for cutting off her seven-year-old student’s tongue with a pair of scissors because he was “lively”. No, folks, this isn’t a Purim joke, you can read more about [...]
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Against my better judgment, I got ensnared into joining Facebook. For those of you who are not in the know, Facebook is an online social network that connects you with friends from the past, your next door neighbor, colleagues, ex-flames, you name it…. You can post as little and as much information as you want, and can [...]
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Monday, February 26, 2007
I have to be honest: I have never enjoyed reading poetry, and could never understand what all the fuss was about.* In primary school (that’s elementary school to you American heathens), I recall struggling to make my poems rhyme. They went along the following tenuous lines…. “I’m a poet and I didn’t know it…” “The snow [...]
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
As I sit here at 10 p.m. on Thursday evening (quite sad, really), willing myself on to edit just another couple of chapters, fuelled by a “supersized” mug of coffee, it brings to mind an astoundingly fresh historical novel that I read last year called The Coffee Trader by David Liss.
The novel takes place in [...]
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
The subject of this post is a quote from my favorite writer of all times, Tom Robbins. I start reading his books with the knowledge and acceptance that the world will look radically different once I have finished. When I prepare lunch for myself, I half expect the can of baked beans to start talking [...]
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Monday, February 19, 2007
Welcome to Double Take! The problem with being an editor, and having an anal personality in general, is that you can never stop being…an editor. I recall countless blind dates, back in my single days, when I vowed that I would not point out to my date every ridiculous spelling mistake on the [...]
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