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Stolen moments

March 20, 2013

I have read a total of 1800 pages over the past 10 and 1/2 days. Five books, two of them Terry Goodkind (om nom nom seeker of truth), two of them by John Green ( if I was a dude and awesome I would write like this awesome dude) and a book on starting my own […]

W.B. Yeats. How I love you in this moment.

August 22, 2012

Yes. Sometimes I just post ( gasp) poetry. Sometimes it says what I want to in fewer words 😉 SAILING TO BYZANTIUM I That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees — Those dying generations — at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, […]

Eyelid Stories and the Great Below.

July 26, 2012

Sometimes I don’t sleep. Fancy that. It’s been a lifelong “thing” so when I was young I developed this method. I would write myself to sleep aaand by writing I mean think myself to sleep – imagining words scrawled across the back of my eyelids – a story that disappeared as quickly as it was […]

Maurice Sendak – You wonderful creature you.

May 8, 2012

I feel like shadow songs this morning. Maurice Sendak – totally pivotal part of my childhood and honestly a part of my adult/psycho analytic life has died. Life well lived sir. ❤ Your illustrations will adorn my child’s ( yet to be conceived of course) wall. Your words will fill their ears. Your spirit will […]

The best books in the damn universe – and other sundry details.

May 4, 2012

Books book books. Are you ready for it? The top books of all damn time according to yours truly? I know you’ve been waiting with bated breath and heart a pattering for it and I apologize for that. I was busy partying for the big 31 and couldn’t get to it. Books are a special […]

Read Dammit.

April 24, 2012

Seriously. Read. It makes you a better person in the heart, body and mind. Read this and tell me what it makes you feel deep in the squirmy parts of your belly. Read the first line and then the next and the next and the next. Later I’ll gift you with my favorite books […]