Did u hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete Proving nature’s laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet Funny it seems but by keeping its dreams it...
To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart. I was in a graphic novel kind of mood, and I enjoyed Persepolis, so I picked up Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi....
Since then, this old and great civilization has been discussed mostly in connection with fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. As an Iranian who has lived more than half of...
So you will have to know something about the time and place where I come from, in order that you may interpret the incidents and directions of my life. Dust Tracks on a Road by...
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither...
I was not anxious to write this book. Writing an autobiography at my age seemed presumptuous. Moreover, I felt that to write about my life, what I did, what I thought and what...
A review I wrote of Robinn Gourley’s Bring Me Some Apples and I’ll Make You a Pie and Anita Silvey’s I’ll Pass for Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War appears in Purdue...
I'll tie back my hair, men's clothing I'll put on. / I'll pass for your comrade as we march along. / I'll pass for your comrade, no one will ever know-- / Won't you let me come...
Alicia does brief posts wherein she says what book she's currently reading. I've been flirting with doing something similar except, well, what I'm currently reading constantly...