It’s that time of April, bookworms, that sends shivers of terror up my spine: tax season. Technically, the deadline was a few days ago, but everyone still seems to be crazy. They say the only two things in life that are certain are death and taxes and yet that still doesn’t help someone like me [...]
Category Archive — words
Book News, April 14th
Welcome to another weekend, bookworms. Slowly, but surely, we are creeping into spring. Boston is running it’s annual marathon on Monday (also known as Patriot’s Day, some obscure Revolutionary War holiday that only Boston celebrates, because that’s how we roll) and I’ll be out cheering for my cousin, who’s running her very first marathon. I’m [...]
Word of the Week (67)
On April 11, 1814, the Treaty of Fontainebleau ended the war against Napoleon and exiled the short little megalomaniac to the island of Elba. Alas, it seems even defeated megalomaniacs still suffer from bouts of hauteur, because just a year later, Napoleon would escape and try to rule France – and the world – once [...]
