> “Tsundoku” - Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves. Need it in English! http://t.co/fS8IhMJkwP pic.twitter.com/aILnTQPrGt [http://t.co/aILnTQPrGt] — Open Culture (@openculture) July 24, 2014 [https://twitter.com/openculture/statuses/492339799794393088] Even though I'd make use…
John Cassidy describes his idyllic summer break at The New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/taking-news?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=tumblr&mbid=social_tumblr] > On the way back down to the city, we stopped off at the vacation rental of…
> Sign of the (absurd) times: UK park urges visitors to dump smartphones in "tech creches" to enjoy Nature undistracted http://t.co/CAtKqe3uXu — carlhonore (@carlhonore) July 23, 2014 [https://twitter.com/carlhonore/statuses/491957841004331008]…
Here's one from a Toastmaster friend travelling for business.…
I think there's a remarkable similarity in Mary Ruefle's short passage about writing posted by Austin Kleon [http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/92182229341] > “Everything has already been said and done. But, then, if this is so, why do we need more poems in the world?…
That recent post about postcards [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/sadie-stein-on-postcards] got me thinking that it might be a good idea to review the postcards I've received and collected over the years and to share them here. Here's one from a trip my brother made to Africa…
Alive Inside, which I first noticed two years ago [http://tmblr.co/ZhkhVyJXhVnq] , is nearing release. Here's more from The Daily Beast. > Using an iPod, Alzheimer's patients who have not spoken in years begin to sing along with the music of their youth http://t.…
At The New York Times Nora Johnson offer a brief, but shatteringly accurate, description of a stroke's effect [http://nyti.ms/1la0P1g] > But that was before the stroke. Now he’s wandering through strange country. That sounds about right to me. I can remember moments of panic,…