Shyla loves to read classic literature, listen to music, and continue teaching tricks to her new Australian Shepherd puppy Jules.
She works as an inspector for a government contractor, and she's currently working on her first nonfiction book.

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writing

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history

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was to be on Broadway

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Seeing Rent the Broadway Show

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to get my feelings out

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I'm rereading Jane Eyre

Arts & Humanities > British Authors Were migraines the inspiration for the wacky world of Lewis Carroll?

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For years literary critics and medical scholars alike have likened the scenes of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass to those of drug related hallucinations. The images of Alice, both shrinking and growing, have amused, intrigued, and even scared generations of readers. As a result, rumors have accused Lewis Carroll, whose real name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, of drug addiction. While we know that Carroll did use Laudanum, an opiate that was a common additive in many medications of the day, there is no evidence to support the theory that he was an addict. Why the...

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