That didn't take long

The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut
by Nora EphronSalander opened the door a crack and spent several paragraphs trying to decide whether to let Blomkvist in. Many italic thoughts flew through her mind. Go away. Perhaps. So what. Etc ( Read more... )

The last few times I've gone to Goa, I've conducted a few oral history interviews with my parents and anyone else who will sit still long enough to answer my questions ( Read more... )

Continuing from where they got to from last time, this time around there's been a murder, a robbery and an attempted poisoning ( Read more... )

I don't normally think of an auto club as something that works against my long term interests, and it was disconcerting to realize that AAA has been lobbying against the clean air act and opposing new rules that require cleaner burning exhausts. This reprint from Harpers, 2002 lays it all out.

Here's another critiqueI was looking at options to ( Read more... )

Saturday, dr_memory and whynotkay brought over some drumsticks they found at the farmers market ( Read more... )

Good lord, they did it!

New York City, March 22, 2010 ( Read more... )

Had the first strawberry of the season, ripened on the plant.


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is a Goan proverb that translates to "seven lives of a cat".

Which got me wondering: how many lives do cats have in other cultures?

I went to see this with beckastarI picked the romantic comedy because a. I thought it would be funny and b. I hadn't seen one in a long time (Trial and Error was the last one that I remember ( Read more... )