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In my last post I wrote about my coming to terms with what an unfriendly eco-eater I was, and made a resolution to go veggie one day a week. Gentle reader this was a momentous decision for me, because I am one of those people who think that if it doesn't have meat, it isn't a meal. I could count on one hand the number of days I've gone without...

Millions of people in Asia and throughout the world are preparing to celebrate the New Year. According to the Chinese zodiac, which is based on the lunar calendar, we are about to enter the year of the Tiger. The year will begin on February 14 th , 2010, and will end on February 2nd, 2011. Traditionally, the Tiger is a symbol of bravery, but it is also...

THE MILLENNIUM TRILOGY Six years ago, a Swedish journalist delivered three manuscripts to his publisher in Stockholm. These three supreme thrillers featuring an unlikely pair of sleuths – Mikael Blumkvist, an investigative journalist, and his sidecick Lisberth Salander, an Asperser's Syndrome antisocial hacker. The journalist was Karl-Stieg Erland...

There is plenty of appeal to go around in the 800s. There’s the aesthetic comfort of poetry, the practical application of literary criticism, the intimacy of memoirs – so it’s easy to understand why essays might be overlooked. Although the essay is a natural and very basic form of writing, open to manipulation, it is not a popular undertaking for writers...