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A blog as diverse as my life has been
Month: September 2024
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The Morning Glory Project
Guerilla gardening or how to make the neighbourhood your backyard
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Weekly Opening Lines – Sep 28th
From Braving the Wilderness, by Brené Brown: “When I start writing, I inevitably feel myself swallowed by fear. And it’s especially true when…”
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Stone Blind Review: The Other Story of Medusa
A feminist retelling of one of the most famous creatures in Greek Mythology
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Books on My Fall 2024 To-Read List (TTT)
A bookish meme about my reading aspirations for this Autumn
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Weekly Opening Lines – Sep 21st
From Doramar or the Odyssey: Stories, by Itamar Vieira Jr.: “Here is the limit’, the soldier points with the gun…”
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She Would be King Review: The Fantastic Tale of Liberia’s Creation
The touching story about the foundation of the only Black state in Africa never subjected to colonial rule.
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On Blogging and Online Communities
Reflections (or rants) on how to blog in the content-is-money era
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Weekly Opening Lines – Sep 14th
The first lines of West With the Night, by Beryl Markham: “How is it possible to bring order out of…”
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Journey: a beautiful game about connection
Slide across the desert in a minimalistic scenery and bond with people you know nothing about
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Knife Review – Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Writer Salman Rushdie’s account of the attempted murder that almost fulfilled the fatwa imposed on him by Islamic fundamentalists.
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