Many of us propel through life on the promise of completion. Ah, the perfection in being smooth, well-rounded. Fragmented and jagged; a shard; a sliver, we pray that people and circumstances will come our way to make us greater than we can be on our own.

Whether drawn by the tropical climate or its famed zany hedonism, writers such as Ann Beattie, Annie Dillard, Robert Frost, Ralph Ellison, John Dos Passos, Judy Blume, Shel Silverstein and Elizabeth Bishop are just a few whose names have appeared on...

Offbeat Bride has the scoop: “I have to confess, I got a little teary-eyed over Andrew and Jackie’s Giving Tree wedding invitations, made by Kim from NMI Creations. (Did you pick up on the special wording of “share” and “give” like for The Giving Tree?

Whether you're more Carl Sandburg or Shel Silverstein, you can display your talents in front of a pro beginning at 8 p.m. Sign-ups start at 7:30 p.m. , and it's all happening at the Neurolux, so sorry underage poetry prodigies, you'll have to wait...

"Shel" Silverstein had one of the more extraordinary literary, music, and art careers you will ever read about, though many people will not recognize his name or his face. He was the eccentric combination of Chicago-born Jewish kid who became a country...

But Nordstrom believed that her greatest find was Sendak. As she wrote in a Feb. 21, 1955, letter to Sendak, published in "Dear Genius": " Oh my GOODNESS I'm so GLAD I went up to old F.A.O. Schwarz that day...." Nordstrom spent years carefully