February 2012
11 posts
“Yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (via awritersruminations)
January 2012
13 posts
“‘For instance,’ [Meryl Streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are...”
– “Meryl Streep: Force of Nature,” Vogue (via detectivejane)
Beautiful piece on parenting by Anna Quindlen
By Anna Quindlen, Newsweek Columnist and Author
All my babies are gone now. I say this not in sorrow,
but in disbelief.
I take great satisfaction in what I have today: three
almost-adults, two taller than I am, one closing in
fast. Three people who read the same books I do and
have learned not to be afraid of disagreeing with me
in their opinion of them, who sometimes tell vulgar
jokes...
December 2011
6 posts
November 2011
22 posts
Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B →
soupsoup:
The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income...
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Press 53: It's an Ehle kind of Day →
“A creek is an artery of a mountain, though its blood is not salty. The blood oozes through the ground; the water cleanses the body, permits the earth to breathe deep inside itself. You see, most all the water is inside the mountain, not bubbling and cascading and twirling here in sight in…
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