If you’re like me, you watch Mad Men as much for the fashion as for the plot. Are you a Betty or a Joan? Betty, Don Draper’s cold and somber wife, is the epitome of classic elegance. Fiery, take-no-prisoners secretary Joan goes for the form-fitting; this woman loves her curves. If you could win either Betty or Joan’s wardrobe this season, which would you choose? Go here to view a Mad Men fashion slideshow.
The AFP reports that Nobel prize-winning author Jose Saramago, known for his haunting novel Blindness, will say goodbye to the blog that he began writing last September. Why? He needs to finish his novel. Saramago was 85 when he started the blog with a love letter to Lisbon. In his last blog entry, Saramago writes: “It has always been convenient that goodbyes be brief…Goodbye therefore. Until another day? I sincerely don’t think so. I have started another book and want to dedicate all my time to it,” he wrote in his final blog entry. Good advice for all of...
November 19 of this year marks 21 years since Michaela Joy Garecht was kidnapped from a parking lot in Hayward, California. She was nine years old. Her friend saw a man grab Michaela and force her into a car. Michaela’s mother, Sharon Murch, has never stopped searching, and Jaycee Dugard’s recovery 18 years after her kidnapping has renewed Murch’s hope for some sort of information about what happened to Michaela. On her blog this week, Murch has written about her hopes that there is a connection between Michaela’s case and Jaycee’s. Michaela and Jaycee looked “a great deal alike.”...
