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Blogroll

• Family First:

• Ted on Popdose
  
• Maya's Granny
  
• La Luna's World
  
• Kathy's Book Column
  
• Chloe and Justin

  Friends I Know in Person:

• Autumn's Mom
  
• Cherry Extract
  
• Create a Winning Week
• Donna's Chaos
  
• Live Your Art
  
• Smulo Space
  
• The Starshine Report
  
• Tommy's Mommy

  Other Blogs I Love:

• A Day In The Life
  
• A Gentleman's Domain
  
• Amy Sue Nathan
  
• Angry Black Bitch
  
• An Anthropologist Wannabe
  
• Apathy Lounge
  
• Bibliomom
  
• Brilliant at Breakfast
  
• Compost Studies
  
• Curiosity Killer
  
• Dad Who Writes
  
• Daughter of Opinion
  
• Dept. of Nance
  
• Flux Capacitor
  
• From the Shores of Introspect and Retrospect
  
• Greeblemonkey
  
• I Promise Not to Laugh During the Seance
  
• Just Another Day
  
• Katie, Bar the Door
  
• Lotus Reads
  
• Mom 101
  
• Ms. Mamma
  
• OmbudsBen
  
• Punctuality Rules!
  
• Random Thoughts and Musings from the Island
  
• Red Ravine
  
• Red Stapler
  
• Riley's Ramblings
  
• Simon Says
  
• Scribbit
  
• Stop and Wander
  
• Suburban Oblivion
  
• Teeny Manolo
  
• The Hidden Side of a Leaf
  
• The Lucas Four
  
• Uncivil
  

Currently Reading

Kim

Book Challenges

Jan 1 - Dec 31 2009

• Mrs. Dalloway
• The Member of the Wedding
• Slaughterhouse Five
• Kim





Jan 1 - Dec 31 2009

• Stardust
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog
• The Road Home
• How I Live Now
• We Are On Our Own





Jan 1 - Dec 31 2009

• Revolutionary Road
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog
• The Hearts of Horses
• Out Stealing Horses
• The Solace of Leaving Early
• Fortunate Son
• The Road Home
• The Gargoyle
• The Tale of Murasaki
• Saving Fish From Drowning
• The Graveyard Book
• A Thousand Splendid Suns





August 1 2008 - June 1 2009

• Possession
• The Gathering
• Charming Billy
• Just In Case
• Tamar
• Criss Cross
• Small Island
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha
• The Fifth Child
• The Bluest Eye





May - Nov 2008

• The Westing Game
• Purple Hibiscus
• The Thirteenth Tale





May - Sept 2008

• My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes
• Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
• In Defense of Food
• Why Do I Love These People?
• The Year of Magical Thinking





Jan - Dec 2008

• Possession
• Inheritance of Loss
• Purple Hibiscus
• Atonement
• The Amber Spyglass
• The Gathering





Jan - Dec 2008

• I Killed Adolf Hitler
• Persepolis
• Persepolis 2
• Beowulf
• The Tale of One Bad Rat
• Jimmy Corrigan
• American Born Chinese
• Pyongyang





Jan - Dec 2008

• The Bluest Eye
• Run
• The Abstinence Teacher
• Pictures of Hollis Woods
• The Book Thief
• Pillars of the Earth
• The Great Divorce
• No Country For Old Men
• Sightseeing
• Charming Billy
• Plainsong
• Belong to Me







• March
• Ethan Frome
• Number the Stars
• The Almost Moon





July 2007 - June 2008

• The Giver
• Runaway
• The Inheritance of Loss
• Waiting
• The Road
• March
• Middlesex
• Gilead
• Atonement
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Vernon God Little
• My Name is Red
• Number the Stars
• The Book Thief
• American Born Chinese
• Suite Francais




Summer Hidden Treasures


• Sepharad






• East of Eden
• Half of a Yellow Sun
• Cloud Atlas







• East of Eden
• Henry and June
• Tell My Horse
• Madame Bovary
• The House of Mirth







• The Scarlet Letter
• My Sister's Keeper
• The Jump Off Creek
• Year of Wonders
• Julie and Julia

Online Reads

• Broadsheet
  
• Jon Carroll
  
  

Podcasts I Like

• Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me
  
• Planet Money
  
• This American Life
  
• To The Best of our Knowledge
  
  

I Support

• American Civil Liberties Union
  
• Child Abuse Prevention Council
  
• KQED - Local PBS Station
  
• Mercy Corps
  
• Oxfam International
  
• Planned Parenthood
  
• Southern Poverty Law Center
  
  

Calendar

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• May 2008
• April 2008
• March 2008
• February 2008
• January 2008
• December 2007
• November 2007
• October 2007
• September 2007
• August 2007
• July 2007
• June 2007
• May 2007
• April 2007
• March 2007
• February 2007
• January 2007
• December 2006
• November 2006
• October 2006
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• August 2006
• July 2006
• June 2006
• May 2006
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• February 2006
• January 2006
• December 2005
• November 2005

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Music

Sweet Fire of Love
Robbie Robertson & U2



Didn't we shine like silver
Didn't we bear the cross
(Didn't we) bring down the hammer
(Didn't we) beat on the drum
(Didn't we?)

(Days on the run)
Here she comes
a-shining like a light
(Nights in hiding)
Here she comes
salvation in the night
(Hoping that you were)
I'm giving up the ghost
(The healing inside me)
I'm giving up the ghost

(Breathe in the sweet fire of love)
I'm not afraid anymore
(Sweet, sweet fire)
I'm not alone
(Breathe in the sweetest fire of love)
I'm not the same anymore
(Sweet, sweet fire)
Sweet fire of love

Breathe (2AM)
Anna Nalick: Wreck of the Day



There's a light at each
end of this tunnel,
You shout 'cause you're just
as far in as you'll ever be out
And these mistakes you've made,
you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around.

2 AM and I'm still awake,
writing a song
If I get it all down on paper,
it's no longer inside of me,
Threatening the life it belongs to

And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary,
screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to

But you can't jump the track,
we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass,
glued to the table
No one can find
the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand.
and breathe, just breathe

Now I Can't Find the Door
Sam Phillips: Cruel Inventions



Germany and Japan
Make me feel so poor
Like seeing some new movie star
In a dress I wore
You'll notice that
I changed the subject
'Cause I'm afraid of you
There must be some back way
Or window I can climb out through


But now I can't find the door
Love is what I leave for
I can't find the door
Away from you, Comrade
Away from you, Darlin'
Away from you

Unlock this dark room
Last time I knocked down the door
I've cornered fear with keys
From whispered core

But now I can't find the door
Love is what I leave for
I can't find the door
Away from you, Comrade
Away from you, Baby
Away from you
Away from you

Dear God
XTC: Skylarking



Dear god,
Don't know if you noticed,
But your name is on
a lot of quotes in this book.
Us crazy humans wrote it,
you should take a look,
And all the people that
you made in your image,
Still believing that junk is true.
Well I know it ain't and so do you,
Dear god,
I can't believe in,
I don't believe in,

I won't believe in heaven and hell.
No saints, no sinners,
No devil as well.
No pearly gates, no thorny crown.
You're always letting
us humans down.
The wars you bring,
the babes you drown.
Those lost at sea and never found,
And it's the same
the whole world round.
The hurt I see helps to compound,
That the father,
son and holy ghost,
Is just somebody's unholy hoax,
And if you're up there
you'll perceive,
That my hearts here
upon my sleeve.
If there's one thing
I don't believe in...

It's you,
Dear god.

;
Hands
Jewel: Spirit



I will not be made useless
I won't be idled with despair
I will gather myself
around my faith
for light does the
darkness most fears

My hands are small, I know,
but they're not yours
they are my own
but they're not yours
they are my own
and I am never broken

Poverty stole your golden shoes
but it didn't steal your laughter
And heartache came to visit me
but i knew it wasn't ever after

We will fight, not out of spite
for someone must stand up
for what's right
cause where there's a man
who has no voice
there ours shall go singing
In the end only kindness matters
In the end only kindness matters

Hand In Hand
Dire Straits: Making Movies



Rain come down,
forgive this dirty town
Rain come down
and give this dirty town
A drink of water, a drink of wine

If I been hard on you,
I never chose to be
I never wanted no one else
I tried my best to be
somebody you'd be close to
Hand in hand
like lovers are supposed to

As you'd sleep,
I'd think my heart
would break in two
I'd kiss your cheek,
I'd stop myself from waking you
But in the dark you'd
speak my name
You'd say baby what's wrong?

Lovers In a Dangerous Time
Bruce Cockburn



These fragile bodies
of touch and taste
This vibrant skin,
this hair like lace
Spirits open to the
thrust of grace
Never a breath you
can afford to waste
When you're lovers
in a dangerous time
Lovers in a dangerous time

When you're lovers
in a dangerous time
Sometimes you're made to feel
as if your love's a crime
But nothing worth having
comes without some kind of fight
Got to kick at the darkness
'til it bleeds daylight
When you're lovers
in a dangerous time
Lovers in a dangerous time And we're lovers in a dangerous time Lovers in a dangerous time

She's Leaving Home
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band



Wednesday morning at five o'clock
as the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note
that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs
to the kitchen clutching her hankerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside she is free

She
(We gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving
(Sacrificed most of our lives)
Home
(We gave her everything
money could buy)
She's leaving home
after living alone
For so many years
(Bye bye)

Quotes

"The cure for
anything is salt water:
sweat, tears, or the sea."
Karen Blixen

"Atheism has its uses, but don't let it get in your way"
Dad

"Kindness in words
creates confidence.

Kindness in thinking
creates profundity.

Kindness in giving
creates love."
Lao-Tsu

"Money can never buy you love or happiness. You cannot go into a store and pay a person to be your friend. I mean you could, but I would rather meet them under a big apple tree."
Rebekah M., Age 11 Idaho

"The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom.

The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard."
Sloan Wilson

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