Wednesday's Words by Morgan Ashbury

* 2010-06-09 * "Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico"
I was a young teenager in 1968, the year that both Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. I recall very well the feeling of hopelessness that followed the spring of that year. It wasn’t just me, it was all of us. We would say things like, “I’m never going to get married and have kids. The world is going to end soon. It has to.” It was more than typical teenage angst; there was a sense of depression that seemed pervasive. Eventually, and I cannot recall when it happened, we began to have hope again. We began to live and love and plan for the future. Maybe it was all just my age group, that “nothing is ever going to be good again” feeling; maybe it’s a common reaction when unbelievable tragedy strikes.

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Interview with Euro-Reviews

Euro-Reviews got interviewed!
To promote the release of her new book 'The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing' author Mayra Calvani (she happens to live in Belgium too!! What a coincidence!!) interviewed a couple of review sites and Euro-Reviews was one of the lucky ones!

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