there are other things that i was thinking about posting but now there is truly good news.

my sister passed the bar exam.

yay.

i ran across the singer/songwriter and philosopher tom zé on tuesday night. i must say that i just stood there staring for what seemed like a long time wondering if i should speak to him and wondering why there weren´t other adoring fans crowding around him. i was watching him walk off when a kid came up and supplicated himself on the floor in ( Read more... )

My mother e-mailed me on Tuesday to tell me that Susanne, the host of KRCL's Thursday morning program, had died on the previous Friday. For those of you who aren't from Salt Lake City (which is everyone), KRCL is the local community radio station. Our family first listened to it over Labor Day weekend 1988 when my father, sister, cats and I were ( Read more... )

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after making this comment in ty's LJ, i made the same confession to my mother yesterday with a suitable amount of trepidation. (for those of you who can´t see that journal, i said that, if i end up back in the u.s., i´m thinking of getting an mfa in photography ( Read more... )

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