The Black Sheep Dances

Seriously, this series by Sue Grafton has always been a beachside, no deep thinking required read, not literary and not particularly notewor...

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go t...

Great websites for a laugh: awkwardfamilyphotos.com exactly like it sounds theonion.com check out the headlines. failblog.com terrible mista...

I just finished this yesterday...I won't review it. It's too complicated and too personally relevant for me to comment on. I will s...

"Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."

This book sat on my shelf a shamefully long time before I decided to read it. I was afraid it was a self-help book, that all important prom...

This is an older novel, written in the 1930's or thereabouts. It was originally in Norwegian, and the author later won a Nobel Prize fo...

Little itty bitty things cluttering my mind: Middle child turns 16 tomorrow. Yikes. How did this happen? He was my tiny baby, my cuddly t...

First off, I've always been a bit skeptical of MM. I've seen his movies and have been pretty shaken up by them, but always felt lik...

Yep, more Winton. I should know Australia pretty well by now, after all these books. Spoiler alert! That Eye, That Sky is his most bewilder...

Okay, I confess: I love craigslist. I have bought and sold stuff on it. My son finds great deals on auto parts and tools. I think it...

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson...no spoilers, I promise! I just finished this hours ago, and it is something to be in awe of. I high...

Okay, this list is going to get updated as I consider new options, but I wanted to keep track of my goals (the open-to-the-public kind of wi...

Here's a job that would be pretty cool to have: April's Smithsonian magazine had an article on a few forensic astronomers who spe...

Thoughts, no discernable order or sequence: Eventful baby days: my little man managed to speak about 30 new words in just a few days, as we...

I had a free afternoon and this movie was saved to Tivo. It's an Australian movie from the early 1980's starring Hugo Weaving (Mr. ...

“It is as if time is irrelevant. My life’s memories take up space with no regard to when they happened, or to their actual time-span. The ...

Okay, I realize I'm pushing Winton's books so hard you'd think I was getting a commission. I'm not, they are just THAT good...

7:40 tonight

This was off the deck tonight, crazy hot weather and wild clouds:

Purses: I do love me a good bag. A really good purse just makes ordinary life a bit more elegant. Leather, lots of pockets, details: I'm...