Louis Dearborn L'Amour (né LaMoore; 1908–1988) was an American novelist and short story writer.  His books consisted primarily of Western novels (though he called his work "frontier stories"); however, he also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (Haunted Mesa), non-fiction (Frontier), as well as poetry and short-story collections.  Many of his stories were made into films.  At the time of his death almost all of his 105 existing works (89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction) were still in print, and he was "one of the world's most popular writers".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour   

Using adverbs is a mortal sin.  Elmore Leonard  https://www.azquotes.com/author/8728-Elmore_Leonard   

Elmore Leonard (1925 –2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.  His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKoFn8YfMvc   

Dec. 21, 2022  6 Ways to Declutter Your Digital Life for 2023 

1. Hit the Unsubscribe Button

2. Clean Up Your Desktop and Downloads Folder

3. Do a Notification Check

4. Clear Out Your Photos

5. Check Your Browser

6. Clean Up and Update

https://www.buckeyebroadband.com/blog/6-ways-to-declutter-your-digital-life-for-2023   

50 Chinese New Year recipes posted by Sam and Dan  https://www.aheadofthyme.com/50-chinese-new-year-recipes/   

Jujube fruit (Ziziphus jujuba) is also known as the Chinese date, jujube, or red date.  The plant is native to China and has been grown in the US for more than 175 years.  The jujube fruit ranges in shape from round to pear-shaped.  It may be as small as a cherry or as big as a plum.  It has a thin, edible skin and whitish flesh.  When ripe, the fruit turns dark red.  After turning fully red, the fruit begins to wrinkle and soften, but it is still edible.  Sharlene Tan  See health benefits at https://www.webmd.com/diet/are-there-health-benefits-of-jujube-fruit   

January 19, 2023  A federal judge in US District Court in Detroit has asked parties in a lawsuit over the possession of a Vincent van Gogh painting to settle the matter themselves. The artwork, Une liseuse de romans (The Novel Reader), 1888), is currently on loan to the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA).  The museum was sued last week by Brazilian collector Gustavo Soter, who claims that he is its rightful owner.  The museum’s attorneys said the DIA exercised due diligence to ensure the painting was not stolen and that under federal law, the court cannot tell museum officials what to do with it.  The museum is “blameless in this case”, US District Judge George Caram Steeh said, according to WXYZ Detorit.  He added that he could find little legal precedent for the case.  The painting, a scene of a woman reading, has been on view at the DIA since 2 October 2022 as part of the museum’s blockbuster exhibition  Van Gogh in America (until 22 January), which features 74 paintings drawn from the DIA’s collection and more than 60 lenders.  The wall label next to The Novel Reader notes that the painting comes from a private collection in São Paulo.  Claire Voon  https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/01/19/van-gogh-painting-dispute-detroit-institute-arts   

leporine (not comparable)  adjective  (chiefly zoology, also figuratively) Of, relating to, or resembling a hare or rabbit. quotations ▼ Synonym:  (shaped like a hare or rabbit) leporiform  (hare):  Synonym: harelike, (shaped like a hare) lagomorphic  (rabbit): Synonyms:  cunicular, rabbitlike, rabbitish, rabbity  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leporine#English   

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