Mari's Midnight Garden

Novel Delights Fiction readers score higher on empathy and social acumen tests than do readers of nonfiction. By:Marina Krakovsky Reading fiction, it turns out, is a surprisingly social process. A study at the Journal of Research in Personality showed that frequent readers of narrative fiction scored higher on tests of empathy and social acumen than [...]

Remember how hard I cried last September when both my hard drive and the back-cd failed? Well, in a stroke of wonderful luck, while looking for cds/programs to put on my new laptop two weeks ago, I found a backup cd I had made in June. While it doesn’t have absolutely everything I lost, it [...]