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Also me: grabs pan from play kitchen to hold yarn barf because the yarn bowl is five steps away and that is just too far

Brides in Bowties: Wedding Fashion Gallery

Learning my way around this new iPad but someone isn’t having it.

Serena Williams on motherhood. The story in context.

Alabama Shakes have racked up two GRAMMYs in the pre-awards telecast for Best Rock Song (”Don’t Wanna Fight”) and Best Alternative Album (Sound & Color). 

Watch: Lady Gaga delivered a wild yet fitting tribute to David Bowie

Brian Kesinger

please don’t make my heart beat too fast, it may give out.

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Nobody needs reminding that Yeats was a major poet, but it can be easy to forget, a hundred years of his major work, just why his poetry has endured. In The Irish Times, Denis O’Donoghue makes a forceful case for Yeats’s relevance, arguing that “Yeats solved, or came closer than any other modern poet in English to solving, the problem that defeated so many of his contemporaries: how to reconcile the claims of common speech, morally responsible, with the insisted-on autonomy of the poem.”

Part of the exhibition will be available for viewing during our evening events.

Bicep

Woman’s ‘relentlessly gay’ front yard prompts angry letter from Christian neighbor (To read the story, click here; For the heads up, thanks to Nicola A. Menzie; For a Relentlessly Gay GoFundMe page, click here; For a related post, click here http://christiannightmares.tumblr.com/post/116057581506/iowa-man-arrested-and-charged-with-sending-fake)

A couple of weeks ago, we hosted a group of four-year olds from a local child care center in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania (the home of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies)....

“Autism”