There's always something new at Steve Lasky's virtual Museum of Family History. Here's the March update: - “Churbn Lettland: The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia� – Very important telling of events, written in 1947 by a survivor. More material from the English... Continue reading here.......

Dear Reader, I write, this week, from somewhere in the South of England.  I bring news of many things; some serious, some not so serious… The more I read and think about the issue of the  London Law Schools raising their Legal Practice Course fees by nearly 10% the more absurd I find it in t...

My friend Pastor Daniel Meeter has a guest post about lent from Jessica Stockton, blogger of The Writtern Nerd, on his Old First Blog. I was interested to read that she is blogging for the  New York Times' new Local blog project for Fort Greene/ Clinton Hill. So she's the literary blog...

Some days, you just have to admit defeat and go home. This was that day. I've had some kind of stomach virus since Saturday night, (possibly bad sour cream, but you know, it's hard to tell). But, because Sunday is......

Some comic postcards... it's been a long time... Tom Browne (1870-1910) was one the most popular cartoonist in England at the turn of the XXth century. You could find an enthousiastic bio on "About Postcards" , a blog dedicated to postcards collecting (and thank you for Tom B's photo). So, many spor...

Bricolage är indiepopband från Glasgow. Deras största förebilder heter saker som Orange Juice, Josef K och Fire Engines, och deras debutalbum är producerat av salig Steve Lironi från legendariska post-punkarna Altered Images. Löjligt bra förutsättningar som dessa borgar för en löjligt hö...

  Red Hook Initiative is a group which works to confront and affect the consequences of intergenerational poverty through an approach that offers support in education, employment, health and community development. We believe that social change comes from within individuals. The momentum to imp...

 There's an article about Cordula Volkening in the New York Times today, alongside this photograph by J.B. Reed and a video called "A Paintbrush and Nothing to Lose." More than a year ago, I got an email from a friend about her Park Slope neighbor and friend, who had been diagnos...

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I just read Michael Winerip's Generation B column in the New York Times about my sister. It will be in the February 8th edition of the paper but it's already online. I must say I had my misgivings about her going public about the fact that my father, who died on September 7th, was "Mado...