The Black Sheep Dances

The Rejection Letter that Should Have Been! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

I'd love to credit that title to its proper author but I have no idea where I heard it. It describes me perfectly. When I was actively ...

This is considered one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, yet I missed it in my years of book lust. I once tried to read it last year,...

Today I am in such a funk over the murder of Byrd and Melanie Billings of Florida. Somehow this injustice and horror seemed to reach me more...

Barely out of her childhood, this young woman ventures out in Uighur, Xinjiang Province, in China where unrest has been heavy this week. I ...

Woman Goes Completely Insane from Allergy to Home and Family (AP) NIPOMO, CA Authorities in California have confirmed that a long time Nip...

The picture doesn't do this handsome guy justice, but it gives you a glimpse of Daddy Oriole who is living in my oak tree. Yes, he's...

Everyone has had one of those days where everything goes wrong, when all wires are crossed and nothing works. Usually when it happens to me...

My favorite tree in the yard: canning this week!

Chihuly.com, go to "glass" and then to "seaforms"...this is from the loop 1 section. Wow.

Dale Chihuly blown glass chihuly.com The site has amazing works...

Shop Class as Soulcraft : An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford. This book was just released in May and it's fascin...

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...