Archive for January 2007 | Monthly archive page
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted some flash poetry (So the challenge is, to set a timer and write a poem in 5 minutes). :) The irony: when I was an undergrad, I wore black leggings, too,when I was dating Greg and dreaming of John (who was in Japan). And when I see them on [...]
Below you can find some meaty portions of DavidK’s review of “The Ones Who Walk From Omelas.” May I strongly suggest that you take the time to read through the entire review in addition to these excerpts! Now please chime in with your own thoughts on this text, too. I will be happy to print [...]
For a way-better-than mine summary and discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian [warning: not for the faint of heart], see DavidK’s blog. For those of you who are eager to get going on the pilgrim book club, let’s start with “The Ones Who Walk From Omelas”, which you can find online here.* I hereby nominate [...]
05300011 Originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl. A photo of Catgirl’s favorite batray from her Catalina trip. She said that she and her friends named it guacamole.
If you are waiting for a podcast to download and you randomly click on a song in your itunes library, and pouring forth is “Figlio Perduto“, as sung my Sarah Brightman. And you close your eyes and remember. That one Sunday that seemed like every other Sunday until the organist started playing the postlude. And [...]
–An excerpt from some thoughts on Quaker silence: By and large Quakers tend to be busy people, and you rarely find them wondering how to occupy their time. They would, however, be the first to recognize how essential it is for them to have periods of disinvolvement, even from the activities which express their continuing [...]
IMG_1203 Originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl. CatGirl just returned from her class’ three-day outing to Catalina Island. Where she snorkeled, frolicked, and grew about 3 inches taller. Welcome Home!
From a must-listen podcast, The Writer’s Almanac (5 min of daily literary pleasure): It’s the birthday of the novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf, born Virginia Stephen in London (1882). She never went to school, but her father chose books for her to read from his own library. Her brothers all went to the best universities, [...]
Dear rats:I know it’s been very cold lately–downright frigid, even. And I’m sorry that it’s difficult to find a warm place to sleep outside, especially since the recent construction has eliminated all the steamy mulch piles along California Ave. But good news is ahead–the days are getting warmer so you won’t be as desperate for [...]
My friend Chris Bigelow and some of his buddies published an LDS humor column, “The Sugar Beet” (like The Onion for Mormons) for several years and have combined the best of their work into The Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer. I’ve reprinted a bit of one of their funnier articles here, some positions from the Mormon Kama [...]
Okay, a question for all of those tech-savvy readers out there: So if one shares a google calendar with one’s spouse, and the calendar is starting to fill up quickly (meaning, very few nights at home together in the next few weeks), is it appropriate to ‘calendar’ sex? And if so, does one make it [...]
another announcement reject, 1992 Originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl. This was one of the candid pictures from our engagement photo shoot.What makes this photo even more interesting is that John is wearing my white jeans (because he didn’t have his own pair)
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