If you are like me, you probably have stuff in boxes in your basement, garage or attic that you never use (or have even forgotten you have). During our last move, we tried to get rid of much of our extraneous, but still useful, items by donating them to the Salvation Army. Now we have joined The Freecycle Network which is: a grassroots movement … Read More

Was out with a friend the other night and I let her order my wine for me because she is well-versed in wine and has great taste. Anyway, she chose a Viognier, which is a grape I had never heard of before, but now I’m glad I did because I fell in love with it.

Well, what a lovely surprise to find that one of my favorite spots to visit each day, riley dog, has one of my flashes featured today. Thank you, riley dog! note: the content and images on riley dog change daily, so bookmark it and visit often.

NewPages.com has posted new reviews of such lit journals as: The Antigonish Review, Bellingham Review, The Cincinnati Review, Cranky, Fine Madness, Florida Review, New England Review, North Dakota Quarterly, So to Speak, Southwest Review, StoryQuarterly, Terra Incognita, Third Coast, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Water-Stone Review.

When I read work by Michael Cunningham I think, “He really knows women.” And he does. He is right there in my head knowing how it feels to be a woman. All of that frustrated, crazy emotion. That desperate love. That anger. But then as I continue to read, I come to the conclusion that it is not just women he knows or homosexuals … Read More

good reads fo the day

Allen gets cranky about the media hype over identity theft. and Katie Weekley reviews Terri Brown-Davidson’s brilliant novel Marie, Marie Hold on Tight.

poem for 5.10.05: Excluded from Frescoesby Michael Teig

Has anyone seen the new Star Wars yet? I am eager for real reviews (i.e., not the press) about it. I’ve been less than thrilled with the previous two but will see this one nonetheless.

I clicked on the news not expecting that I would find anything really other than the usual crap about Michael Jackson and Paula Abdul but oh good god is this a horrible, shattering story: Bodies of Missing Girls Found in Illinois. Who could be such a beast to do this?

My favorite person in the world has created a blog called All Belongs (it’s an anagram) and I think it’s swell. So if you are interested in application design, technical writing, the user experience, or rants about abuse of the written word, you may want to bookmark it.

New at Pindeldyboz, fiction by the amazingly talented, Maryanne Stahl: Adult or Something.

poem for 5.9.05: Domestic Mysticismby Lucie Brock-Broido