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This is another series of memories of unusual occurrences that happened to the author?from trips to Africa; trips to Wallgreens, unusual dates she remembers, not with pits, art galleries, being accepted in art shows, and to her son's poem to remind her of how talented he is. Her new work is funny and unique. There is so much to love

Truman and MacArthur offers an objective and comprehensive account of the very public confrontation between a sitting president and a well-known general over the military's role in the conduct of foreign policy. In November 1950, with the army of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea mostly destroyed, Chinese military forces crossed the Yalu River. They routed the combined United Nations forces and pushed them on a long retreat down the Korean peninsula. Hoping to strike a decisive blow that would collapse the Chinese communist regime in Beijing, General Douglas MacArthur, the commander...

From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, the Harvard Graduate School of Design played a crucial role in shaping a new modern architecture and the modern city. Architects, planners, teachers, and students from all over the world looked to the new GSD, with its celebrated faculty and curriculum, for the path to modern design. While the school's significance is widely recognized by architectural historians, most studies have concentrated on the Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and his transformation of Harvard's old Beaux-Arts School of Architecture into a -Harvard-Bauhaus, - a radically new...

Why are so many fictional characters named Anna (or a variant), and what does this signify? The startling prevalence of Hannah/Anna/Anne moves from biblical literature ("Old Testament" Hannah and "New Testament" St. Anne) to classics ("Anna Karenina" and "Anne Elliot") to popular fiction (Anna Dunlop in Sue Miller's "The Good Mother"), children's literature ("Anne of Green Gables"), films ("Hannah and Her Sisters"), and horror (Annie Wilkes in Stephen King's "Misery"). Does this represent a conscious or unconscious search for the ultimate or missing mother harking back to mythical and...