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- Joan Aragone: Play games to improve your brain (San Mateo County Times)
As we age, our brains function less efficiently than they did when we were younger.That isn't news to anybody over 50 who knows the experience of forgetting a name immediately on introduction or grasping for words to describe a common object.
- Culture update - Daily Telegraph
Things are going from bad to worse,/ Our stages flooded with dodgy verse./ It's really getting up my nose,/ Please let's return to decent prose. Preposterous tosh: Fram is a rhymed epic about a Scandanavian polar explorer I'm sorry to sound a ...
- Native American culture stands tall at Cowboy Symposium - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
oAnn Turtle proudly walks up to LaRue Owens, 68, of Shallowater, and Lena Owen, 74, of Lubbock, and introduces herself. She's Comanche, full-blooded, she says. She didn't have to say it - it's written on her T-shirt. "Choctaw," Owens replies. "And I ...
- To submit - News-Star
We ask that they be as true as you can make them, although we understand contents may have settled some over the years. The memories can be third person, first person, prose, poetry. There is no restriction on length, although one memory at a time is ...
- Pollock mural belongs to Iowans - DesMoinesRegister.com
Pollock mural belongs to IowansDesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 11 hours agoMusic, literature, poetry, art, architecture and religion are innate expressions of human ideas, ideals and principles. A democracy is based upon intrinsic ...
- Beach Boy's back, but shouldn't be - Chicago Sun-Times
Beach Boy's back, but shouldn't beChicago Sun-Times, United States - 10 hours agoYet while he is certainly the culprit behind the awful poetry, Bennett is the man who should be derided for much of the rest of this mess: An adept student ...
- Latin Baby Launches Book Club and New Blog for Parents (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
One of the nation's leading on-line boutiques for baby products with a Hispanic theme has launched a book club and blog to help parents find bilingual books and games. The book club is designed to encourage parents to read to their children to ensure their success in academic life and beyond. Several stellar Latina entrepreneurs across the country will be contributing bloggers.
- Latrobe instructor is state's Teacher of the Year - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rebecca Snyder teaches poetry by asking her students to find song lyrics that touch them emotionally. She introduces the big ideas of the enlightenment and romantic literature by showing paintings to her students. It's those innovating teaching ...
- Authors' book signings a popular attraction - The Huntsville Times - al.com
Authors' book signings a popular attractionThe Huntsville Times - al.com, AL - 8 minutes agoHe has published award-winning poetry, including an anthology in 1978, and numerous technical non-fiction articles and papers during his US Navy career. ...
- New Lonely Planet guide urges us to stay green - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
New Lonely Planet guide urges us to stay greenScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 1 hour agoArtsy, dreadlocked wanderers mooch between cafés and coffee-carts, ducking into the Bridge St bars or poetry readings in bookshops." (p. ...
- Grand Rapids sculptor Nathan Horowitz remembered for 'great heart ... - MLive.com
GRAND RAPIDS -- Friends are remembering a Grand Rapids sculptor whose controversial work once resided downtown near sculptures by Alexander Calder and Mark di Suvero. Nathan Horowitz, whose two-story sculpture, "Vesta," formerly was installed in 1973 ...
- Hayden Carruth, Marian McQuade - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Carruth lived for many years in rural Vermont and New York, where manual labor and an unforgiving climate became part of his daily life and, ultimately, his poetic voice. Through years of isolation and neglect, he doggedly continued to write, gaining ...
- Adults with Special Needs - Black Hills Today
Adults with Special NeedsBlack Hills Today, SD - 3 hours agoSinging, cowboy poetry, and wagon rides are also among the many activities offered. Cooking out on a campfire and preparing s’mores will be included. ...
- Institute to offer 'The Poetry of Robert Frost' at the Bennington Museum (Bennington Banner)
BENNINGTON  On Wednesdays Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 8 and 15, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Berkshire Community College will offer a course on the poetry of Robert Frost.
- Bootle-born poet Matt Simpson on a life of writing - icSeftonandWestLancs
Bootle-born poet Matt Simpson on a life of writingicSeftonandWestLancs, UK - 1 hour agoI was writing poetry and I was reading. I said ‘this is all wrong’ and I wanted to go to university.†Ironically working those 15 months helped guide him ...
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