Lit Lover

"In 1974 Annie Dillard published Pilgrim At Tinker Creek , a mystical excursion into the natural world that established her among the f...

Oooo, cool, I just found this song my sister put on a C.D. for me a while back and I listened to it while coming home. It kind of drew away ...

23 is the kind of song you might listen to on a road trip. After stopping and getting entranced with a gigantic bumble bee feeding on a flo...

Another component of my day off was encountering a young man on the sidewalk who told me the story of a girl who survived being attacked by ...

I have been checking out way too many books from the library. One of them was What Makes You Not A Buddhist by the monk/film-maker from Bhu...

I half-listened to some people on the radio discussing political memos & use of language & classified information. I thought, even t...

A dream that I had this morning, of a girl running away at the sight of a blue pen I was holding and me saying "It's just a pen!...

Sunday Morning! I think maybe they should play that song at church services. Just in case someone in the congregation is secretly muttering...

A cote du paradis (improperly typed, sung in a language I don't quite know, even though I was able to pass a translation exam in it) is...

This morning I lay in bed and looked at myself through little snapshots of my life. A lot of them were food-related for some reason. 1) I...

Books I like, but I wonder if I need to own them? ?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213765096&sr=8-1">All My Patients Are Under The ...

If I habitually read/write and this post is a room, and it has this one certain quote from a book about Thoreau and Emerson, which I just ca...

Climbing the Mango Trees by Madhur Jeffrey Heaven Lake by John Dalton I think that book could make a very interesting movie.

Dear body--way to catch the worst cold/bronchial ailment right in the middle of a heatwave, just after you've moved into a dusty basemen...

Coughing, hacking and consuming (a bit belatedly) Air Armor (Trader Joe's knockoff of Airbourne). Not letting my annoyance about my heal...

Jesus at Artomatic and Finding Christ Through Cookies .

Mrs. Robinson America Sound of Silence American Tune El Condor Pasa

Jesus is Lord in New Zealand . I can definitely understand this kind of religious experience. One time, when I was coming back from a road t...

having a funny kind of conversation with a horn player! Her CD of Greek, Bulgarian, Rom dances is the one that is most often played in my c...

The Full Monty (by myself in the Egyptian Theatre , the first Friday after I'd moved to Seattle) and Shopping For Fangs (alone at the ...