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...just celebrated your 75th birthday. Or rather the celebrations are ongoing. My sister Eunice wants to know why I have to have several, and I told her, Well, I was the ninth member of the family. I had two sisters who had their birthdays on Feb. 20, and mine's on Feb. 22, so the house was always lively on Feb. 20, and then [the next day] someone would say, Oh, my goodness, Teddy's birthday is coming up tomorrow. So I've been wanting to make...
...imagine from the perspective of a middle-child boy in between two sisters, I have a lot of issues. Growing up was difficult with two girls constantly ganging up on me and forcing me to play the board games “Mall Madness” and “Pretty Pretty Princess” while all I wanted to do was go in my backyard and try to get bugs to fight in a jar. Like most siblings, we soon became very competitive with each other and constantly fought over life-altering issues, such as who would suffer...
...answer lies in Maurer's background. An agriculturist by training, he came to Bhutan more than 30 years ago to help the remote kingdom develop a dairy industry, before staying on to open his guesthouse in a traditional stone building that was once the home of the King's sister. Maurer's professional expertise, as well as the pristine environment, ensure that the food at the guesthouse will be among the freshest you've tasted. Vegetables are from the garden. The jams, honey and bread (apparently a favorite of the Queen Mother's) are homemade. The butter and cheese...
...which has enforced a state ban on the wearing of head scarves in educational institutions.Ka’s friend suggests an additional incentive for the trip: the beautiful and mysterious Ipek, whom Ka has always had a thing for, has separated from her husband and is helping her sister and aging father to manage the Snow Palace Hotel in Kars.As Ka travels through the dilapidated neighborhoods of Kars interviewing the families of girls who had committed suicide, he hears of lives of quiet desperation: 16-year-olds engaged to elderly men, girls subjected to verbal and physical abuse...
...relationships and people that Eisenberg explores. “Some Other, Better Otto” is particularly engrossing because of the types of connections it centers on—that between Otto and his endlessly patient and supportive lover, William, and also that of Otto to his schizophrenic sister, Sharon. The difference between the two relationships and the extent of love that the characters demonstrate despite extremely straining circumstances reveal just how far the capacity of love can extend. While “Twilight of the Superheroes” and “Some Other, Better Otto” explore...