One of the most positive experiences I had in Africa was visiting the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Located just outside Nairobi, Kenya, the Trust rescues elephants and rhinos orphaned by drought, famine and ivory poaching. Humans can learn a lot from elephants.…
Me: Well a good thing to do might be to set a date. Oh God. I just said “set a date” to you. I am SO SORRY. Like a point-of-no-return date. Him: I was like, “You mean like Lady Mary?”…
I discovered Alain de Botton when I was like 15 and he was doing a book tour for How Proust Can Change Your Life that I caught on CSPAN. Of course I had never read Proust—I’d never even heard of…
Valentine’s Day didn’t suck this year! I am delighted. First, I learned all about 3-D printing during my morning walk (I listen to TED talks to keep me from collapsing from the utter boredom of walking alone around Grand Rapids).…
★★★★★ This book somehow managed to get me thinking about how much I waste every day without putting me on the defensive. Beavan, God bless ‘im, is so self-deprecating that he just never sounds judgmental. Well-placed statistics educate readers, while…
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Ruth Terry 