Uncommon Content

O nce upon a time there was a girl born without the gift of beauty, grace, the pleasing manners of extroverts, or the prospect of a fortune....

I just finished reading The Verts ,  Ann Patchett's latest children's book beautifully illustrated b y Robin Preiss Glasser. The con...

     Some years ago, I wrote about introversion in Jane Austen's heroines here:   Jane Austen's heroines .  What was left out of tha...

Clearly Isaac Asimov lived before "synergy" (now displaced by "collaboration") was  buzz word. In 2014 MIT Technology R...

Though the contexts may vary from those cloaked in spiritualism with suggestions of meals with a Buddah to those that guide you to a sta...

Shakespeare begins Sonnet 116 with the declaration, " Let me not to the marriage of true minds/  Admit impediments. " In real lif...

Personality types and introversion recently came up on one of the online boards  on which I comment. It made me consider another aspect of t...

The title is a variation on the "Pictures, or it didn't happen" demand that we sometimes see in comments on posts. The idea is...

Do you find happiness surrounded by the throngs of people and noise in a club?  Or do you find in silent contemplation of the beauty nature?...

                                Jane Austen Fiber Doormat If I were to rank Jane Austen’s heroines on a scale of most extroverted to mos...