You should know that many of these were art house flicks-the kind we saw at the Tower or Crest, and did low to moderately well at the box office.  But seriously if you haven'tseen these, they were all outstanding in their own right!  All of these movies are from the decade I have heard referred to as "The Naughties."

• Whale Rider
• In America
• Lost in ( Read more... )

Evangeline to her Dad

"I'm not your flying monkey!"

So having a career as an oncology nurse doesn't often provide me with the opportunity to tell people that "I save lives."  More often than not, I prolong them with life sustaining treatment at great cost. (But that's beside the point for today.)

The topic for today is CPR.  Just this week I had the great experience of being able to provide excellent ( Read more... )

Using LJ to think through commute options for Grad School.

Option #1

• My car only gets about 24 miles to the gallon on average.
• Round trip to the USF via car is 226 miles.
• So I'll burn approximately 10.8 gallons of gas.
• Assuming an average gas price of $2/gallon, that's $21.60
• I'll also need to pay a toll at $4

So I'm seriously considering graduate school. Or I should say that I am applying for graduate school. I have the grades to get in, my job loves me, everyone who loves me writes lovely letters so ( Read more... )

-In the US, approximately 1 in 3 men and 1 in 2 women will develop a malignancy during their life ( Read more... )

I just grabbed some Starbucks on my way home from taking the baby to school.  Loomis is a little town, we have four stoplights in the whole town, one market, one feed store, one tack store, assorted post office, pharmacy, hairsalon, and of course, our own Starbucks.  I'm wearing my "Namaste" shirt today.  It's one of my favorites.  Between that and ( Read more... )

So I went to a YogaFit training this weekend.  Not because I want to teach yoga, actually.  In fact, one of the things I got out of this weekend is that I'm really not in a teacher headspace right now; that I'm in a student headspace.  That I want to take classess, and learn.

But mostly this weekend was about listening, or not listening to my body ( Read more... )

Heard an NPR segment today on six word memoirs, ala Hemmingway and the editors of "Smith" magazine.  Here are a few that spring to mind.

"Life spent balancing body mind spirit."

"Empty belly, I never held you."

"I want to fix the world."

I read this book back when I was 17 or so.  A freshman in college.  A professor recommended it after I had listed some of my favorite books, and I truthfully enjoyed it and found it intellectually stimulating.  I couldn't then, nor can I honestly now, say that I understand why this book has become such a flashpoint for intellectuals.  I have ( Read more... )