“I used to dream about becoming an explorer of unexamined areas, the discoverer…

As you may know, this week is National Library Week! The American Library Association (ALA) first sponsored national Library Week in 1958. According to the ALA, National Library Week is “a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation’s libraries and librarians and to promote library use…

Easter in Serbia is an anticipated celebration, like in many places in the rest of the world. However, Serbians celebrate Easter in different ways than many of us do here in the United States. The main way that things differ on Easter in Serbia, as opposed to other countries, is that Serbia has…

Jennifer Egan’s novel ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ is an iridescent array of narratives from interconnected lives. This is a book about growing up only to find out that the person you grow up to be turns out completely different from, yet still inextricably connected to, the…

“The Blank Pages”

I never thought I’d see the day that I would buy a book that lacked any sort of printing. This week, I added an art class for…

Traditional Serbian Cuisine

All over the world each culture has their own unique blend of foods, drinks, and styles that make up their own…

Blogging on LinkedIn

In the past few years, blogging has taken the Internet by storm. There are hundreds of thousands of blogs on the web…

Today I started reading Thomas Rockwell’s How to Eat Fried Worms, which I bought for a dollar at a used book store last week. This is actually the first time I’ve ever read How to Eat Fried Worms, but it’s not the first time I’ve experienced the story.

This week the old and the new of the news industry were wedded, but will they remain together until death do they part? The New York Times reported that it had agreed to move articles from its own site to Facebook. The deal mirrors the popular app…