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To conclude a lovely birthday weekend, my hub and I saw the movie Sin Nobre. I read a little blurb about it beforehand and knew it was about an ex-gang kid in Mexico helping a young girl get over the border from Honduras. That was all I needed to be sure to only watch the movie as a storyteller and harden my heart before it even began. So I ( Read more... )

"If my heart's desire was handed to me on a plate, I'd probably want something else" From 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle' (good book.)

"The key to happiness is not being a picky eater." Ivy, 11 years old (a student of mine.)

I'm writing a radio script for a class I'm teaching and in looking up script format, I came upon this, a program from 1939.

( The Librarian )

Last minute a friend asked if we wanted to go to another town and watch the inauguration at a theater with the community. Unlike my usual self (I like plans) I said, yes, and we booked it over there to make it just in time for the opening ceremonies. I'm so glad we did because we were with a large crowd of very happy Americans, cheering and ( Read more... )

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett ( Read more... )

( Dear Red States: )

A book by Rosanne Olson that features photographs of women of all shapes, sizes and colors in the nude with a paragraph or two of an interview about their bodies. It's a wonderful book that unfortunately highlights how self-conscience so many, many women are about what they look like. It also shows how awesome women's bodies are, and some great ( Read more... )

By Rachel Dewoskin is a really good non-fiction account of a young, American woman desperately trying to figure out a culture through it's language and people. The title comes from a Chinese soap-opera she finds herself acting in. There's lots of amusing and embarrassing moments, as well as profound realizations about the differences, ( Read more... )

It's the birthday of poet and critic Sir William Empson, (books by this author) born in East Yorkshire, England (1906), who wrote about how great literature makes us think and feel conflicting things at the same time. He wrote, "All those large dreams by which men long live well / Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell."