Does it seem like we just started 2022? Or perhaps for you, 2022 was one of the longest years ever and you can’t wait to see it come to an end. Perspective depends on what you and I have going on in our lives, right? Regardless, here we are wrapping up 2022, which for most …
Book reviews
Did you know April is National Poetry Month? It is indeed. I have great admiration for those who write poetry. Putting ideas, feelings, stories, experiences or whatever into words for an essay or blog post is one thing. Doing the same in a far more succinct way via poetry, is quite another.
April 23 is designated as World Book Day. It’s also called World Book and Copyright Day. If you’re interested in learning the details as to when and why it was started, click here. But who really cares about all that? Every day is World Book Day or should be, right? You might be thinking, oh …
Update: Sadly, Uzma Yunus died from metastatic breast cancer on January 30, 2019. #wewillnotforget Originally, Uzma Yunus, fellow author and blogger, intended to contribute a #MetsMonday featured post in which she’d planned to talk about, among other things, her new book. We were both looking forward to this. Unfortunately, Uzma’s health makes this no longer …
Recently, I finished reading The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD. Scribner, 2016. 596 pages. Most of us in Cancer Land are familiar with Mukherjee’s acclaimed 2011 Pulitzer prize-winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies. The latter was made into a PBS documentary. You can read my review of that four-part television series here. …