I saw banks of clivia, and I thought about Sophie's sixteenth birthday tomorrow and whether I would make or bake cupcakes for her party...

San Francisco 2008 I'm going to start writing for a new site, and my first article is up. The site is called Technorati, and you c...

We're going to take a stroll today. I've always loved the French word for stroll: flaner . You pronounce it flah nay. Did you know ...

I had to put on my Pretend Like I Have High Expectations for My Daughter's School hat and meet our private speech pathologist (the one ...

My alter ego, the superstitious southern Italian peasant woman needs to just come on out and tell ya'll that Sophie's seizures have...

That's Roald Dahl's writing shed. And here's Virginia Woolf's: I actually visited Mark Twain's one weird summer wh...

I sat in the car yesterday at a light and listened to a small tribute to Suze Rotolo, one of Bob Dylan's early formative influences and ...

of these: (the new Volkswagon Microbus, powered electrically, uses an iPad to control the entertainment and climate systems) Cue in the ...

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you re...

I am in a daze tonight, late, just getting home from a solo trip to the movies where I sat in the dark and was enveloped by the movie Biuti...

Confession : I haven't been to the doctor (other than my dear Dr. Jin and the yearly lady stuff) for over three years . Confession : ...

The word of the day today was just perfect. Here it is: SITZFLEISCH It means "the ability to sit through or endure something boring...

Wasn't that just about the weakest, most lame Oscar ceremony ever? Here in La-La Land, we hear the helicopters rounding up over the ...

The King and EYE is hosting another fun linky -- Blog Gems -- where those who participate air out an older blog post, look for new readers, ...