The most interesting lunch in the political world took place Monday at the White House, though officials said the chat between President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton was more personal than professional. The president and his former secretary of state "have developed not just a ...Read More
Ancient Grains Archive
Friendship On The Agenda
Ancient Grains, Friendship, Politics
Jul 30, 2013
From USA Today:
Summer Horror Stories
Ancient Grains, Writing
Jul 30, 2013
The Separator
Sabrina grasped the heavy bag with sweaty hands, fumbling with the tie in the darkened room. The floor was dingy, marked up with other “deliveries” being taken in and out. The rain poured down outside. She dragged the bag up, her arm muscles straining with the effort, as she locked eyes
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A Cub Reporter On The Summer Hamptons Beat
Ancient Grains, Writing
Jul 30, 2013
The first day had been hard, he had to admit. Mufflestonehaugh Tidgebrighamport ("It's pronounced Marshton, actually") had asked him what brand of boat shoe his father had been, and pursed her mouth politely when he told her his father had been a human man.
"Not a boat shoe?"
"No, his name's Gordon. He lives in
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English Scientists Cannot Stop Unearthing Coffins
Ancient Grains, Ghosts, History
Jul 30, 2013
English researchers from the University of Leicester digging at the site where the bones of King Richard III were recently found cannot stop discovering additional coffins, even those that were clearly meant to never be disturbed.
Underneath the dirt where Richard's bones mouldered lay another coffin. An
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My First Car Accident
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Jul 29, 2013
Dear Diary,
I think Zachary is a stupid idit below dimwitt.
Yours tuley,
Jessie
Zachary is my younger brother. At the time I wrote that diary entry, I was both very angry with him and determined to establishing a hierarchy of insults. When I was 10 I would use the digital thesaurus in our class to
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This Week in Reading: Canadian Ghosts
Ancient Grains, Books
Jul 29, 2013
Previous installments of This Week in Reading can be found here.
Greetings again from rural Canada! This will be the last rural Canadian reading post until...mid-September. So you can expect that next week's installment will be exclusively books set in NYC about literary men experiencing agita with their literary dads. Maybe they'll
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Continuing the Conversation on White Allies
Ancient Grains, Racism
Jul 29, 2013
Over at Slate, Jessie-Lane Metz discusses her article for The Toast, "Ally-phobia: On the Trayvon Martin Ruling, White Feminism, and the Worst of Best Intentions":
Is it better to offend someone in the course of discussing something than not have the conversation? I do think that if ...Read More
In Here, You’re Family. Out There, You’re On Your Own.
Ancient Grains, Food
Jul 29, 2013
Come in, come in. Shut the door. Shut the door now, shut it now, I don't care who's still out there, shut the door--great. Thanks. Hi, you guys. How many of you are there? Six? Okay, great. Welcome to the Olive Garden. Have a seat. Do any of you need medical attention? Any
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