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#1. I'm 70 years old. My precious wife of 41 years died this past January. I still feel like my world exploded. My kids and grandkids stay in touch and try to keep me from being lonely.
Short stories: Challenge yourself to write a fictional short story. 82. Reimagine a classic tale : Take a well-known story or fairy tale and give it a modern twist.
Having a "senior moment": [17] A temporary mental lapse jokingly attributed to senility or old age. Hipster : A term (often pejorative) referring to young people who are pretentious and heavily focused on keeping up with certain high-end fashion and lifestyle choices.
Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...
The word, however, has been attested since at least 1829 in an issue of the publication The Albion. [8] The French term for boredom, ennui, is sometimes used in English as well, at least since 1778. The term ennui was first used "as a French word in English;" in the 1660s and it was "nativized by 1758". [9]
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is an old proverb that means without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring. It is often shortened to "all work and no play". [ 1 ] It was newly popularized after the phrase was featured in the 1980 horror film, The Shining .
So, bored, I got a scrabble board and wrote every cheesy word for love and sex that I could fit into the scrabble board, and his name in the middle, and took a picture of it. Had the roll ...
New York Times bestseller (a rarity for a short story collection) Included in the 1998 New York Times Book Review books of the year list in 1998 [1] Winner, Irish Times International Fiction Prize. [2] Village Voice book of the year (1998) Winner, Salon Book Award; The story "People Like That Are the Only People Here" won an O. Henry Award (1998)