One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Up Close and Personal

By on May 21, 2014 in Other Blog Posts, Reviews | 8 comments

It was a sunny day in Jakarta, around the year 1975 when I discovered him. My husband had stopped at a bookstore but there didn’t appear to be any books in English. When I pointed this out he said he …

Gods and Goddesses

By on May 11, 2014 in Other Blog Posts, Rants & Raves | 5 comments

I’m afraid to talk about the Goddess. God, the big patriarchal male God will strike me down. This depiction of God the Father is from the Sistine Chapel. Doesn’t he look scary? I think he’s telling me (I mean Eve)...

Rikki, Tikki, Tavi, Part 2

By on May 1, 2014 in Other Blog Posts, Ragtag/the Rest | 7 comments

Rikki’s alive. He must be. The morning after I gave up and took down the signs, Petwatch, the microchip company, called to say he had been turned in to the Buncombe County Humane Society. Maybe he really was on someone’s...