Mark Twain’s Humor and Wisdom: The Prince and the Pauper

I just finished leading a series of eight classes on Mark Twain’s books, The Prince and the Pauper, and Tom Sawyer at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Chesterfield, Virginia. In discussing

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The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman: A Book Review

Ann Luck is an active member of the Lifelong Leaning Institute in Midlothian, Virginia, who has participated in several of my literature classes there. She was so impressed by her

Bringing Litchatte.com Back on Line___________________!

My apologies to the regular and new Litchatte.com readers and subscribers. My site was essentially offline for the last week or so. While I was working with the developers to

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“Etches:” Nancy Kunnmann’s Poem About a Memorable Prison Visit

Nancy Kunnmann has been writing poems for several years. Several of the ones she shared at the beginning of my Poetry Workshop at LLI were about her grandchildren. During this