It was a chance encounter with the Basilica of Saint Lawrence in Asheville, NC that brought me back to the ...
St Mark’s girls 2nd grade class 1950. I’m in the middle row, 4th from the right. I’m Catholic. I’m a ...
FLANNERY O’CONNOR, THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN, A SHORT STORY REVIEW Flannery O’Connor was author of the week ...
Svetlana Alexievich was the author of choice at my Wednesday short story review group. The story was a chapter from ...
Madhubani Painting by Artist Dhirendra Jha Note: I thank Exotic India website for permission to use this wonderful painting of ...
How to teach a child? How do they best learn? I’m thinking of that great mantra of contradiction and hypocrisy, ...
Note: I didn’t have a script for the movie so I’ve approximated dialogue as I remembered it. It’s not exact, ...
What I remember, When I remember, Becomes intensely urgent. It might be a love or a song Or the scent ...
Image courtesy of Serge Bertasius Photography at FreeDigitalPhotos.net I’m an American. That’s what I say if anyone should ask me ...
What does it feel like to be feared? I don’t know. No one that I know is afraid of me. ...
I loved this movie. It had just the right combination of dark humor, zaniness and bookishness for my tastes. I ...
I was ten when Lucy and her family moved in next door. It was winter and although I had seen ...
The Giver starring Jeff Bridges in the title role, Meryl Streep as the Chief Elder, Brenton Thwaites as Jonas and ...
Read also Rohingyas Parts I and II in this blog. The Rohingyas are outcasts, circling out from Myanmar’s borders but ...
Ralph Ellison, Author of The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison, author of the week in my Wednesday Writing Group, wrote ...
[Please Read Part I…} Buddhists have a reputation for being gentle. I conjure up an image of a meditating monk ...
Note: In Burma/Myanmar some names have changed. In this post I will use the term Myanmar instead of Burma, Rakhine as ...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez It was a sunny day in Jakarta, around the year 1975 when I discovered him. My husband ...
I’m afraid to talk about the Goddess. God, the big patriarchal male God will strike me down. This depiction of ...
Rikki’s alive. He must be. The morning after I gave up and took down the signs, Petwatch, the microchip company, ...
There’s a crunching sound in the kitchen and that means Rikki is eating his breakfast. I’m delighted. My entire being ...
From the previews, the movie Gloria looked like a Chilean chick flick for older women. What I thought would be ...
According to Genesis God created man in His own image. Then He created woman from Adam’s rib so he wouldn’t ...
The Temple to the Goddess Inanna in Sumeria was the central core of the community ...
Aren’t You Happy With Me? is the second story we have read of the incomparable writer, Richard Bausch. The first ...
As I climb into bed, I notice the bedclothes have a slight odor of oranges—the fruity smell of ketoacidosis, the ...
This post is a piggyback on Franz Kafka and Rationalization based on reading The Penal Colony posted on February 6, ...
What if I stood at the crest of a hill, A soft hill that descended like a slide, And what ...
(Read it at http://www.kafka-online.info/in-the-penal-colony.html) We are observers in life, travelers, and as we travel, we soak in the moral atmosphere ...
The Observer newspaper said this about the movie Philomena. “Sensitively and carefully directed by Stephen Frears and brilliantly written by ...
The longer I live, the more I experience the world, the more discouraged I become with the present state of ...
I have a great love of research. I think I would have been perfectly happy in life if I could ...
This is the first chapter of a memoir covering my mother’s death and two years I spent in Burma. The ...
I loved this story. I liked the way he broke up the sections and named each part. I like the ...
Alexander Payne’s new film, Nebraska, is on the short list for an academy award and has received six Independent Spirit Award nominations, ...
Last night I watched Last Tango in Paris with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider. Wow, is she beautiful. Women in ...
Mattie arrives unannounced wearing dark glasses, her hair in a motley tangle. Shivering, her arms curled inward, she digs in ...