(Article No. 2) Remarks on the influence of materialism. by Edward Eggleston “No farmer is more slave to his plow, than a gentleman following the clock of fashion”. — W.H. Auden, “The Rake’s Progress” … And so we express our “freedom”: by an increasing economic servitude. A few prefatory comments…
(Series explanation. An educational model excessively governed by business, science, and technology subjects is inadequate and unbalanced, despite the gloss of “modern progress”. The reduction (or even elimination) of humanistic studies deserves serious attention. The long term effects of such educational policies, carried out by various institutions, will be immense. In view of the scale…
Do you love to eat? Love checking out cookbooks? Enjoy trying new recipes? The Adult Department at the Homewood Public Library currently hosts a monthly recipe club. Every month a new theme will be chosen and each attendee will make a dish based on that month’s theme. Thus far, we have showcased everything from…
A native of France, Mireille Guiliano is known in some circle as “the Ambassador of France and its art of living”. She is an international best selling author whose passion is the joie de vivre. She gives practical advice to women on work, family,and getting older, while enjoying the good things in life. She has been a guest…
Fairy tale retellings are a mixed bag. Traditional fairy tales are pretty sparse on details, plot twists are sudden and unexplained, and the entire story is usually very short. The very vagueness of a fairy tale screams out for a retelling. What’s the character’s backstory? WHY did they do that inexplicable thing? How did the…
Lauren Oliver is an American author who is well known in the YA (Young Adult) genre. Encouraged by her parents who were both literary professors, Lauren Oliver was very creative as a child, and wrote many stories, poems and created many things. She studied literature, philosophy and creative writing in college, and began writing for Penguin…
