Diary of an Anonymous Palestinian ( Read more... )

Nothing much to say. But I came here, so ( Read more... )

Catch it if you can, it's there till May I was told. I went today, got in free because a friend works there, and went up to the 6th floor and walked around and around for an hour, until meeting my friend for lunch ( Read more... )

Because I put more than a whole week between my finishing "Pavillion of Women" by Pearl Buck and my writing about it, there's a good chance my short-term memory loss will come in to play; sorry in advance ( Read more... )

"You do listen when the crisis is right at your doorstep ( Read more... )

Peony was bought at a very young age, to be companion to David, the young son of Ezra and Naomi, family name Chao, in the Jewish enclave of Kai-Feng, China in what I believe are the mid 1800’s. Later, she took the role of bondmaid, a family servant. She was delicate, quite pretty, but steadfast. Though she yearned, naturally enough, as she grew ( Read more... )

It's a great title to me. It represents expansion, a lack of pressure, a timelessness if you will, a feeling of breeze, of wide open spaces. And in the book--by Pearl S. Buck--the same feeling of openness, of possibilities, presents itself ( Read more... )

I actually allowed myself to vocalize, though under my breath, a curse word upon seeing a large lady (I believe it was a lady)wielding a huge shopping cart during the unimaginably crowded Saturday afternoon through the narrow aisles of the meat market. I trudged slowly behind her. Luckily in the freezing meat section there was little congestion and ( Read more... )

Non-Lunch ( Read more... )

What I learned Yesterday ( Read more... )