I’m back in Washington. I returned home on Tuesday to a very bushy man-beard in the place where my husband’s face used to be. I managed to excavate a kiss and an explanation that he intends to let it grow, along with his hair until the baby is born. Apparently, he feels this will instill [...]
Tag Archives: Travel
Internet Glee in Honor of Buy Nothing Day
Instead of shopping today, how about just snuggling in at home with a loved one and checking out cool stuff on the Internet?
Bookshelf Banter: The Road
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, is a literary fiction about a man and his son eking out an existence sometime after Armageddon. Yes, folks, this was an Oprah book not too long ago, but I avoided it at the time. I had a feeling it would dark and somewhat dismal and I didn’t think I [...]
Photos Not Taken
Unphotographable is a catalog of exceptional mistakes. Photos never taken that weren’t meant to be forgotten. Opportunities missed. Simple failures. Occasions when I wished I’d taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter.
And more…
In October 2004, I traveled to Ethiopia for a two-week trip. I’d been [...]
Books by Women Meme
BOLD those you’ve read, ITALICIZE the ones you’ve been meaning to read. Found via Little Book Room. She also marked the ones either she’d not yet heard of or questions thier validity on the list with “???”; I choose not to do that part of the excercise but there are certainly several on here that [...]
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My 2005 Reading List
Strike through on the ones completed thus far.
January
Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating by Geneen Roth
When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy by Geneen Roth
February
A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Egger
March
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
April
Alice in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll
Hotel New Hampshire by [...]
The unrequited book, requited
I finally completed Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, Love in the Time of Cholera. Newsweek billed it as “A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy,” from the back cover of the book. It is a love story, but not in the conventional sense. It is an unrequited love story as the theme of love unreturned [...]
