Writing & Reading

A Sicilian Memoir: Simeti’s On Persephone’s Island

By Etta Madden | January 30, 2021

Mandarins and pears at an open market in Sicily. Photo: Andrew Malone , Wikimedia Commons via Flickr Mary Taylor Simeti’s memoir of...

Riding the Winter Waves: Reading for Health

By Etta Madden | January 2, 2021

Elizabeth Blackwell writing on happiness in 1845 Here’s the second part to a post from just after Thanksgiving 2020, “Riding the Holiday...