Harper Lee made a rare public appearance to receive an award at the Los Angeles Public Library. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my all time favorite books and movies. Many writers try to emulate Lee’s tender and convincing style, but few have that skill. Harper Lee is a marvel and I do not at all puzzle over why she has never published … Read More

Horrific and yet joyful story–Fla. Girl, 8, Found Alive After Kidnapping: Police Sgt. Mike Hall was scouring the landfill for the girl Sunday morning when he looked inside the trash bin and saw a yellow recycling container with a lid on it. When he opened the lid, he “saw a bunch of rocks, a foot and a hand,” Sgt. Dan Boland said. Hall then … Read More

I’m slightly obsessed with the HGTV show House Hunters in which prospective buyers visit three (they obviously visit more but you only see three) properties with a real estate agent and then try to buy one of them. Sounds scintillating, right? Well, yeah, okay. It’s is sort of boring unless you’ve become house hunting obsessed (as I have). All this is to say that … Read More

I’ll admit, I’m not much of a lover of baseball but for some odd reason I love watching sappy movies about it (Field of Dreams) and reading amazing books about it (The Natural). I also appreciate the dedication and passion that goes into being a baseball fan. So, this post is about a new site dedicated to the game–Baseball DIY. Go on and bookmark … Read More

I’m going to go ahead and be judgmental and say that this–Letourneau, Fualaau to Wed Friday–grosses me out. Why is the media celebrating this news? Would we be printing cutesy photographs of a male child molester marrying one of his victims? Haven’t we had enough of this woman? I feel so sorry for her children–all of them.

If you read nothing else today, please read this–Moyers Addresses PBS Coup: These “rules of the game” permit Washington officials to set the agenda for journalism, leaving the press all too often simply to recount what officials say instead of subjecting their words and deeds to critical scrutiny. Instead of acting as filters for readers and viewers, sifting the truth from the propaganda, reporters … Read More

poem for 5.18.05: Mostly Mick Jaggerby Catie Rosemurgy

What was I thinking?

I did it. I wasted exactly one hour of my life last night–an hour I can never retrieve. I wasted this precious hour by watching Britney Spears’s “reality” show Chaotic and it was exactly as horrible as you would imagine. I hadn’t intended to watch it but I flipped channels and there it was and being the pop culture junky that I am, I … Read More What was I thinking?

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This may verge on the line of TMI, but today is the day I go for my yearly mammogram. I have had one every year since I turned 30. Most women begin getting yearly mammograms when they turn 40 but since my mother (and two of her sisters) had breast cancer, my sisters and I must take this precaution. So, for the sake of … Read More www.thebreastcancersite.com

Here’s wishing a very happy 50th anniversary to the ole bendy, green guy–Gumby: Five decades after Gumby first captured the nation’s imagination, the little green guy and his chums are starring in a new art exhibit the first in a series of events to mark the 50th anniversary of the television icon’s creation and launch his comeback.

poem for 5.15.05: Fishing for Cats 1944 by Donald Hall

Great read for today: The Day Room, a wonderful new flash by the one and only Beverly Jackson. Thanks to Kat and Jai for the link.