Archive for December, 2007

Book Review/The Sky Isn’t Visible From Here

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

The Sky Isn’t Visible From Here Scenes from a Life By Felicia C. Sullivan Algonquin of Chapel Hill Hardcover $23.95 

By BILL DUNCAN The News-Review

Not since I read Jeannette Walls "The Glass Castle: A Memoir," have I read such a deep, meaningful memoir [...]

The Christmas hymn that stopped a war

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

By BILL DUNCANThe View from Here

"Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright, round yon virgin mother and child. Holy infant, so tender and mild, sleep in heavenly peace…" words to my favorite Christmas hymn, although when I first heard them as a small boy I thought the [...]

Photographic memory, a blessing and a curse

Friday, December 14th, 2007

By BILL DUNCANThe View Frome Here

Memory researchers says we are not supposed to remember everything. Daniel L. Schacter, Ph.D., and Harvard Psychology professor, writes in his book “The Seven Sins of Memory,” that “our minds would be impossibly cluttered if we could not dispose of useless information."

When a computer [...]

A child shall lead them…

Friday, December 7th, 2007

By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here

By the calendar we are into December, but you already know that, because merchants started telling us Christmas was nearly here way back before Thanksgiving, perhaps even while the Halloween pumpkins were still on the vine. As annoying as that is, Christmas is nearly upon [...]