A re-post featuring my favorite short story author. Um, has anyone else noticed how hard it is to homeschool and get absolutely anything else done? No? Just me, then... It’s the birthday of Flannery O’Connor (b. 1925), one of the greatest American fiction writers and a master of the short story form. As both a [...]
Maybe one of my favorite posts, so I am re-posting. Stay well. It’s the birthday of Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), brilliant mathematician but also—because how else are you going to spend your time when you’re not developing an eponymous infinite mathematical series—a brilliant Egyptologist responsible for the publication of the 10-volume Description de l’Égypte, one of [...]
Susan’s Almanac Project for March 18, 2020 Hello, everyone! Are you all okay out there and practicing social distancing? Stay well; we can do this! I'm hoping to do more original posts very soon, but this is a re-post from last year on one of the U.S.'s most prominent authors ever. If you're an Updike [...]
It’s the birthday of Frank Morrison Spillane, better known as Mickey Spillane, writer of the Mike Hammer detective series and mid-life convert to (I am not making this up) the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Spillane was born in 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, and after high school worked at various jobs: lifeguarding, performing with a circus, and [...]