Community groups in Fairfax County are coming together to fight a school district’s plan to turn part of a park into a parking lot. They are calling their.
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Ahead of Mother’s Day, read up on the women who provided support, inspiration, words of wisdom and sometimes tough love to some of your favorite novelists, as seen in Mental Floss’s new book,
The Curious Reader: A Literary Miscellany of Novels & Novelists, out May 25.
1. Octavia Butler
Author Octavia Butler was raised primarily by her grandmother and widowed mother (also named Octavia), who worked as a maid. When Butler was in preschool, the elder Octavia brought her along to work, and her experiences were one of the inspirations for
Kindred. “I didn t like seeing her go through back doors,” the author said in an interview with
Spy: Block s biggest winners: Two weddings and a baby
27 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Emett Valender and Zigie Wightman will be hearing wedding bells.
The biggest The Block NZ winners in Kiwi history Sam Cable and Emmett Vallender are both getting married this year and this week Cable announced he and his fiancee Lydia Lawrence are soon to be parents.
The best friends and former Wellington flatmates took out The Block NZ in 2016, winning $480,000 for their renovated Meadowbank townhouse.
International travel followed and fast-forward five years and the lads have a busy year in front of them.
Cable announced he was engaged to Lydia Lawrence last February. A month later, the pair bought a house together in Auckland s New Lynn.