Word Wednesday

Paraprosexia is the inability to pay attention to any one thing (a state of constant distraction). #WOD #rhetoric #communication #writer #poetry #writing #love #poet #author #quotes #writerscommunity #poetrycommunity #poem #writers #writersofig #writingcommunity #words #art #poems #artist #wordporn #write #books #QOTD

Quetzal by Fer Aguilera Reyes

“Quetzal” by Designer, Fer Aguilera Reyes. An illustration inspired by the different cultures of pre-conquistador Guatemala. #Design #Art #Illustrator #GraphicDesign #Graphics #Aztec #Mayan #CentralAmerica #Culture #Guatemala #Mexico

What Henry David Thoreau Teaches us About Travel

As we prepare for the Holidays, travel and bustle, know that Thoreau understood something that many of us modern day nomads would do well to recognize: travel is a matter of perspective, not location. “I have traveled a great deal in Concord,” said Henry Thoreau, a native of…wait for it…Concord, Massachusetts. In fact, Thoreau traveled far and wide […]

Spanish Playwright Produces Over 1,400 Works of Drama

Think you can write over 1,400 works of #drama in your lifetime? This guy Lope De Vega managed to during the 1,500’s. Born #OTD in 1562 he was an outstanding dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age, author of as many as 1,800 plays and several hundred shorter dramatic pieces, of which 431 plays and 50 […]

Book Sale This Weekend for #BooksGiving

We love our Library, do you? Marion Carnegie Library. Book Sale this weekend, beginning on Friday, and Saturday is #BooksGiving Day! They are located at 206 S Market St, Marion, Illinois. Sale begins Friday November 22 at 9am and goes until Saturday at 4pm. Check out their event page on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2642772699106959/

The Indie Bookstore Hustle

Donna Paz Kaufman has grown used to hearing the melodramatic doom and gloom soundtrack around bookstores. “Every decade I’ve been in this business, somebody has said bookstores are going to die, and it was for a whole different reason,” she says. Since 1992, she’s been consulting with and training independent bookstore owners on how to […]