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© ONÍ Everyday life is the greatest detective story ever written. Every second, without noticing, we pass by thousands of corpses and crimes. -Franz Kafka Money Over Broke-Ass Bitches This is written on the wall in the stairwell of my new office building. It's my first day at work, but...

Disney on Fear recently got back from a family vacation at Disney World. Family vacations are great. I got to spend quality time vi^ith two teenage children, who love and respect me. (I rented them. My own kids wouldn't be caught dead anywhere near me. At the Animal Kingdom I overheard them...

PREFACE ' ^ he fifties were captured in black and white, most often by T still photographers; by contrast, the decade that followed was, more often than not, caught in living color on tape or fihn. Not surprisingly, in retrospect the pace of the fifties seemed slower, almost languid. Social...

On Our Way to beautiful When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful then the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for he also is flesh. —Genesis 6:1-3 Once a year I make the...

About Word Smart I We wrote the first Word Smart thinking it would be our only vocabulary book. Most vocabulary books include too many words that people rarely use, and not enough of the words people actually encounter in school or in their daily life. For Word Smart, we wanted only the most...

MM Uf« I am as compelled to write as I am to take breath. There is so much in my heart—anger and the deepest pain and love for so many things. Yet it all remains unspoken because emotionally I am mute. I have been as a muzzled dog all my life. But I can write. I feel I can write all the way...