by inannaadmin | May 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Ilona Martonfi, author of The Snow Kimono and Salt Bride writes her Lockdown Diary during the quarantine of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Making Tartys in Applis in the time of the Black Death plague, remembering her mother baking the Hungarian almás rétes, the scent of...
by inannaadmin | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Thank you, City of Toronto, for banning pesticides and enabling joyful seas of yellow to dot summer lawns and fields. I love dandelions because they symbolize everything that is tough, tender, supple, resilient. And prolific. Dandelions should be Toronto mascots,...
by inannaadmin | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
The world was a very different place in 1931 – a time of high ceilings and lace curtains, a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husbands. It was also the year the Empire State Building would be completed, making it the tallest building in the...
by inannaadmin | Jan 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Photo credit: Hoda Ghods Prologue After I saw an article, Seven Hours in Tehran, published in American Libraries in early April each re-reading of it saddened me more than before. The author, Leonard Kniffel, reports how his invitation to the...
by inannaadmin | Oct 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Are we devoted to voting because we think it is our responsibility? Or with our hard-won democracy do we feel obligated to sustain it? Yet how is that helping our unstable economies, or addressing the ever-increasing natural disasters? Our daily lives are in one way...
