Dez Kamara’s experience of Sierra Leone: past, present, and future.

ameliorate: [uh-meel-yuh-reyt, uh-mee-lee-uh-] Verb
To make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate.
from dictionary.com)
Don’t call it a cop out, just call it much needed relief. This week’s ameliorator award goes to the many incredible, strong, and hard working people here at the U of L who I have had the chance to work [...]

Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn
Grove Press, 1938
“If this book had not fallen into my hands at the precise moment it did perhaps I would have gone mad. It came at a moment when another huge world was crumbling on my hands. If I had never understood a thing which was written in this book, if I [...]

George IV and Maria Fitzherbert and Caroline of Brunswick.

Nana is moving. With her, all my childhood memories….