Word: penned
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...just like them is particularly important for kids in these families. Nicole Smith, 15, found COLAGE's website after her mother Melissa came out as a lesbian four years ago. Now Nicole, who lives in rural Menomonie, Wis., has new friends in her own area and e-mail pen pals across the country. These friends, she says, "helped get me through a hard time...
...gave up on ER post-George Clooney, this book is what you have been craving. Gawande is a writer with a scalpel pen and an X-ray eye, and in this memoir he applies them to the world of the stressed-out, sleep-deprived, terrifyingly fallible trainee surgeon, where life-or-death decisions are made on the basis of five cups of coffee and an educated guess. A surgical resident himself, Gawande turns every case--from gunshot wounds to morbid obesity to flesh-eating bacteria--into a thriller in miniature, with the author in the role of the oft-stymied...
...although this album is too left-field to make a big mark on the commercial charts, for those who discover it, it will surely remain a favorite for years. Simple, emotional piano ballads, with a depth of feeling that is palpable, seem to flow naturally from the pen of this 23-year-old British ex-chef. He’s like a more emotional version of David Gray and the whole zoo of Brit-pop balladeers...
...breakfast or the saga of their leaking refrigerators. Conventional journalists, like Alex Beam in the Boston Globe, have seized on these slice-of-life bloggers to condemn the whole movement as justification of their own privileged status as those few who should be trusted to wield the pen in a public forum. Beam is half right—the world needs thrice daily updates on somebody’s leaking fridge like the world needs leaking refrigerators in the first place...
...Scotland. She spent each August at the Castle of Mey, listening to her bagpipe records and fishing for salmon with Prince Charles. Sometimes she would simply tramp through the rain, chatting with the locals. Once, it is said, she noticed a farmhand struggling to herd his lambs into a pen. Instantly she clambered over a stone wall to help out. It seemed, she later said, the neighborly thing...