Tag Archives: words
When People Ask WHY Bad Things Happen. Remind them this.
The best love songs are written by the broken-hearted.
The most innovative scientific and medical breakthroughs come from people who have experienced first hand loss and tragedy.
Stated so well in this 2001 NYTimes article by Lisa Belkin :
But though society may ask, “How could you?” the only question patients and families ask is, “How could we not?”
It is the kind of talk heard with every scientific breakthrough, from the first heart transplant to the first cloned sheep. We talk like this because we are both exhilarated and terrified by what we can do, and we wonder, with …
Notes from the Universe
If I have not shared this before, I should have.
My friend Kari turned me onto TUT ( totally unique thoughts) a while ago:
It’s free to sign up and they will send you “Daily reminders of life’s magic and your divinity.”
Here’s mine for today.
Here’s the thing, Linda. Admission into time and space requires a belief in limits: a belief that both time and space are real; that you can therefore have and have-not; that love can be lost or found; and that you are what your physical senses show you and no more. These illusions immediately lead …
Wise Words to the Novelist
Alice Hoffman said,
“For me, a novel isn’t autobiographical in “real time” – but my life is there, transfigured by fiction. I think of a novel the way analysts deconstruct a dream – the dreamer is every character in his or her dream, including the cat and the dog. Or, think of it this way: Your life is a mirror. You throw it down on the ground. It shatters into thousands of pieces. You can never recreate the mirror as it was, but each piece is still a part of the mirror, a part of the writer’s life.
For me, …
More books, authors and events.
Yes. There were more writer events this weekend. We went to The Eagle Eye Book Shop in Decatur.
This is my friend David Fulmer. He’s a great writer. If you don’t know his stuff. You should.
This is me and Kari making a Fulmer Sandwich. His request. Photo by his lady.
And the following video is of a reading of the first chapter of his new book, Lost River , by an adorable actress named Portia.
See a recent LOST RIVER review here. Buy the book and his others here.
After the reading we went out for a few Belgium …
When a sleep aid cure is worse than not sleeping.
Serious side effects of AMBIEN include:
- getting out of bed while not being fully awake and do an activity that you do not know you are doing. e.g., preparing and eating food, making phone calls, or having sex have been reported in patients who are not fully awake after taking a sedative-hypnotic. As with “sleep-driving”, patients usually do not remember these events.
- abnormal thoughts and behavior. Symptoms include more outgoing or aggressive behavior than normal, confusion, agitation, hallucinations, worsening of depression, and suicidal thoughts or actions. Visual and auditory hallucinations have been reported as well as behavioral
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A non-traditional Christmas tale, which still might have a moral.
She had been dating him since college let out for the summer. She was calling him the summer boyfriend, the guy who was friends with her girlfriend’s boyfriend, a guy her own sister used to have the hots for. Convenience and revenge made for an interesting coupling.
He repaired speedboats, played basketball and could dance- well. For those things she could forgive his moodiness, his mumbling, his desire to spend more time with the guys than her. Summer turned to Fall, and they were still an item. She went to his family functions, hung out at his house, teased his …
I read all the wrong books this year.
I try to read 52 books a year. This year I took a month off and still managed to read 63, but according to the NYT, I am not the best person to ask about books.
Their recent list of the 100 most notable books of 2008, lists 48 fiction books that I never even opened. I’m not even going to the non-fiction side of the list.
It’s not that I didn’t know about these great new releases, in fact I listened to interviews with more than 7 of the authors and heard in-depth reviews of more than 20 of …
Ho. Ho. Hammacher Schlemmer. Ho.
You can’t say it without smiling, and you can’t say it properly after a few Friday afternoon cocktails. (I know, but it’s Friday afternoon somewhere, and besides it sounded much better than Thursday morning tequila shots.)
Scanning through this classic Christmas catalog that claims:
Offering the Best, the Only and the Unexpected for 160 years
I found lots of potential gifts for my friends and family from a fish finding watch, a hands free video camera, a voice controlled ipod controller and a perfect martini maker to this bug vacuum.
If we still had little ones to buy for I …
Why do you blog?
It‘s not bad enough that we judge ourselves every time we look in a mirror, see ourselves in a photo, hear our out-going message on the voicemail… now we have opened ourselves up to a blogosphere that may not accept us.
They don’t understand, we whine. They didn’t get the joke. I stink at this. Who reads this shit anyway? Why does it matter? What am I supposed to say? Why do I have so many hits and so few comments? Who did I offend now?
I hear all of this from new bloggers and sometimes from people who …
Say it with your words.
in Rapa Nui, Easter Island, ATA-ATA means to laugh
in Hausa, Nigeria, BA’A is ridicule or mockery
in Maltese, CAPCAP is to clap
in Guam, CHO CHOP is to suck
in Turkish, CZIR CZIR means with a sizzling noise
In Arabic, KARKARA means to rumble
in MAlay to giggle is: KEKEK-KEKEK
in Pashto, Pakistan and Afghanistan, PES PES is to whisper
in Albanian, PSHURR means to urinate, wet one’s clothes
in Turkish, to throb terribly is ZONK ZONK
and the sound of a snake gliding through the grass in Yindiny, Australia is YUYURUNGUL
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