Tidbits

"Anne Sexton said, 'Poetry is my love, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.'"

"It was on this day in 1906 that Teddy Roosevelt went against more than a century of tradition and became the first American president ever to leave the country while in office. He went to view the construction site of the Panama Canal, and when he saw a steam shovel for the first time, he stopped his train and hiked through the mud to take a turn at the controls."

From The Writer's Almanac, November 9, 2007

"In some parts of China, more than 60% of those in dire poverty have been driven there by medical expenses."

From, "Missing the barefoot doctors," The Economist, October 13th, 2007