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read, love, live.
"Gil built up his law practice, my sister opened a store in Laguna Beach (kitchenware, table linens, top-quality grinders and gadgets), and even though Gil had to swallow more than twenty pills a day to keep himself alive, whenever they came east for family visits, he looked to be in good shape. Then his health turned. By the mid-seventies, a ( Read more... ) -
the perfect day
"Next to the river was an ancient apple tree just starting to lose its blossom and Piper and I laid out blankets half under it and half in the sun and then we sat down in the shade to try to cool off while the boys threw off their clothes and leaped shouting into the freezing water and then tried to splash us and called us to Come In Or Else! and ( Read more... ) -
Praise the Lord!
"I have no desire to associate myself with the people behind the Intelligent Design movement. Nevertheless, I continue to find evolution by random mutation and natural selection not just unconvincing but preposterous as an account of how complex organisms come into being. As long as there is not one of us who has the faintest idea of how to go ( Read more... ) -
oh my sleeping child
about 3 weeks ago, kevyn turned 12. which means next year he's gonna be a teenager. he's showing signs of it being all secretive when he's on the computer (must be chatting to girls, we've concluded) and a couple of zits have suddenly appeared on his face much to mummy's dismay. he now has to wear glasses which i think he looks great in - very ( Read more... ) -
ooh baby baby it's a wild world
more proof that what happens in america affects the entire world - i know at least 2 people who are jobless since lehman filed for chapter 11 on monday.
if this happened 3 years ago i couldn't (and needn't) care less. but today, i know that all these financial world happenings will have direct consequences on the firm, its clients, its earnings ( Read more... ) -
donkey
Salon.com has been absolutely brutal and scathing when it comes to Sarah Palin.
One writer says Palin symbolizes the bastardization of feminism:
"Palin's femininity is one that is recognizable to most women: She's the kind of broad who speaks on behalf of other broads but appears not to like them very much. The kind of woman who, as Jessica ( Read more... ) -
VOILA! (this is the post that took forever to write)
there was no paris and no eiffel tower but - or rather, therefore - france was truly BEAUTIFUL and GLORIOUS. i guess once you become a *gulp* working adult, holidays aren't about squeezing in as many museums and monuments into the itinerary as you can but just wanting a restful time away from the daily madness ( Read more... ) -
quit playing games with my heart
Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach - such a sad, sad, SAD ending. i've re-read the ending probably around half a dozen times and i still can't believe it ended this way!
"When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had ( Read more... ) -
give that girl the man booker!
from Zadie Smith's On Beauty"And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared ( Read more... )
