The Heifer by Melissa Hardy

Read "The Heifer" by Melissa Hardy and join us for a discussion in the Community Room on the West side of Whole Foods.  We discuss this at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012.

This work can be found in The Best American Short Stories - 2002 on page 97.

Some questions for discussion:

• Would Aina have been happy had she stayed in Finland?
• Why does the author reflect Genesis 12 with:
  However, the idea of leaving her family and her village and everything that was familiar to her … moving to Canada and marrying Uwe Pahakka filled her brain to bursting.
  

Einstein & the Atom Bomb

Read "Chain Reaction" by Walter Isaacson and join us for a discussion Tuesday Oct 16 in the Whole Foods Tamarac Community Room.

This work can be found Best American Science & Nature Writing - 2009 on page 129.  Or read it at: chain-reaction-from-einstein-to-the-atomic-bomb.  Also read Einstein's letter to Roosevelt, Einstein's letter.

Shooting of John Roy Worth

We discussed The Shooting of John Roy Worth (by Stuart M. Kaminsky) on Oct 2, 2012.  Our basic questions was:  Why did the author end with: 

• "... Wally Czerbiak decided not to die.  And he didn’t." instead of 
•  ... Wally Czerbiak decided to live.  And he did?