Dancing Around the Answers

Some answers in life can never be found while others must be worked for. It takes determination and even a pinch of obsession to find some of the answers we seek in life. Even when we think our journey should be simple, it is not. We always regret that we never ask the right questions when it is too late. Is it ever too late to find the answers we seek?

History is full of both questions and answers. Everyone is affected differently by the events of history, swept up in it. All family histories are tangled together. Paul Paolicelli finds out just how entangled it can become in his book Dances [...]

What we eat on a regular basis tends to be normal to us based on the simple fact that we are used to eating those specific foods regularly. Just as we might eat a hamburger once a week or so, in other places, it may be normal to have eaten larvae or snake. Of course, it is still hard to believe that there is anywhere in the world where blood is consumed regularly, yet there likely is. The word “food” means something different to everyone. What one finds appetizing might come off as unappetizing to someone else based off of any number of things, from taste to culture and mere preference.

Extreme is a word that is used when describing something in the highest degree, [...]