This is Smoky. She was World War II’s littlest soldier and the first therapy dog on record. In 1944, a U.S. soldier found her in an abandoned foxhole in the New Guinea jungle. She soon became the travel companion of Corporal William Wynne…
Sign of someone who read a lot in childhood: you mispronounce words because you only saw them on the page. Which words sounded totally different in your head?
Every generation should read The Lord of the Rings and learn that men are allowed to show affection, that power corrupts, and that happiness does not come from being a ruler but from baking potatoes and snoozing in an armchair by the fire in your cosy Hobbit hole.
thank you for your email. I am currently out of the office. I need a holiday—a very long holiday—and I don't expect I shall return. In fact, I mean not to!
everyone should be given six months in a cabin in the woods stocked with all the books they’ve wanted to read, and their only job during those six months is to finish those books.
I don't know a single person who works in tech and hasn't seriously thought about quitting and opening up a coffee shop in a small town in the middle of nowhere
people say “Lord of the Rings has gone woke” but *Tolkien himself* had a woman secretly dressed in battle array whip off her helmet and cry “No living man am I!” just before slaying the Witch-King and no one raised a word in protest.