Whistling for Moonbeams

by Dana Gioia The world does not need words. It articulates itself in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path are no less real...

Whatever rocks your boat, beautiful, do it before they tell you not to. Everybody says don't as the song goes but few people I know actu...

And what do you know of my griefs?

Some lasting impressions: 1. Bernadette Peters has this amazing performance of "Being Alive" from Sondheim's Company at the ...

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Does the rain in Paris speak French? Yeah, I know, it's a stupid question. Oh, well. photo from A Cup of Jo .

Dear, dear me, been getting headaches because of this confused, temperamental weather. Been lazy and cranky and blah and it doesn't help...

So much of what we live goes on inside– the diaries of grief, the tongue-tied aches of unacknowledged love are no less real for having passe...

Another gray day. The rain falls in an incessant, stubborn rhythm and there's a muffled wailing that accompanies it. After weeks of glar...

What's with the shift in the weather's tone? Suddenly, it's raining (and raining hard!) in the middle of what is supposed to be-...

A and I have been "talking" via our blogs, she having written a post about what she would tell her 16-year-old self should they g...

I mean, the thought of Kafka as funny never, ever occurred to me, in all my readings of him. I pored through his stories with unabashed earn...

Release date: May 19, 2009

Hah! Oh, yes, folks, time to welcome the sweltering heat again. It's that time of the year when electric bills skyrocket to alarming hei...

This is a song for every girl who's Ever been through something She thought she couldn't make it through, yeah I sing these words be...

My dad sent me a text message this afternoon, asking me what I did during the Holy Week and it got me thinking: what did I do this Holy Week...

Sasha Frere-Jones contemplates the timelessness of U2's music in this New Yorker post . Some interesting bits: "The band’s first (...

I'm so lovin' this book! Funny funny funny! For the easily offended, though, read at your own risk!

Lingering, even among what's most intimate, is not our option. *** ...Here falling is our best. From the mastered emotion we fall over i...

Here, Virginia Woolf writes, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is going to write." Shakespeare's sister mu...

I am not well-versed in matters about film and I've only recently discovered that Jonathan Demme was the director of "The Silence ...

Let me erase the word before the final letter falls on the page. You refuse to speak so let me be mute with you. If the upturned palm cannot...

Finally, some time to breathe. The past couple of weeks had me waiting in the wings to exhale. The excitement from the tension and pressure ...

I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I t...

What helpful lines! Got this from A's blog .

It's that time of the year again. I've had severely wind-burnt lips for days now and it'll most probably last for months (I know...

In the office, today, I found myself buried in paper. For a good part of the day, I sat in front of my desk, sorting loads and loads of docu...

shut the mind down shut the mind down shut the mind down shut the mind down shut the mind down shut the mind down shut the mind down shut th...

Overflowing heavens of squandered stars flame brilliantly above your troubles. Instead of into your pillows, weep up toward them. There, at ...

From sephora.com : Be Delicious A modern feast for the senses. Served in a sleek metal and glass apple bottle, this juicy fragrance combine...

Reading this post from The Cat's blog blew me into a nostalgic swirl. Spirals of memories of my Lola's old house in Albay where I s...

I've dipped my fingers--no, make that hands--in quite a number of debates, and most of these were arguments with male friends, verbal ro...

Me: Do you know what tomorrow is? Kim : Saturday. Me : What else? Kim : Last-day-of-exams day. Me : What else? Kim : Go-to-mall day. Me : Wh...

A peek through the curtain revealed an 8 o'clock that was cool and mild, if a little gray, not the kind of morning you'd expect to s...

I was shouting, " asteeg ! astig ka , Liam! astig ka !" after Liam Neeson uttered these lines, via phone, to his daughter's ab...

1. "Zodiac" Director: David Fincher Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, RObert Downey, Jr., Mark Ruffalo 2. "The Usual Suspec...

All in all, a very busy, very fulfilling week. The inter-process calibration I've planned out and organized from late last year and sche...

Noah: You're bored Allie. You're bored and you know it. You wouldn't be here if there wasn't something missing. Allie: You a...

She knows Eddie Vedder (spell check, please) I wish we could talk about Pearl Jam but I only know Maria Callas. You laugh and ask me if I...

He should have taken her to Paris. He should have given her more time. He shouldn't have slept with that dumb brunette. He shouldn't...

Beautiful. I was teary-eyed, as usual.

1. That person you seem to hate so much without really knowing why? Chances are, there is a common trait (or two, or three) you and that per...

Since I have been unable to follow Action Plan #1 to a T, I have come up with a supplementary measure: I am running again! Yoohooey for me! ...

MARCH by Emily Dickinson Dear March, come in! How glad I am! I looked for you before. Put down your hat- You must have walked- How out of br...

The morning's wee hours proved the perfect time to watch "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer." I was a clean slate (read: had n...

Today, someone told me: it's not the breath you take every moment, but the moments that take your breath away. I'm not quite sure I ...

I read this story over at TheNewYorker.com . It puzzled me, but this paragraph, I think, would best encapsulate what it is the story is tryi...

Looking at the sky still shakes my faith, at times. Its vastness warps its beauty.

For breakfast, NO RICE. For lunch, pig-out. For dinner, yoghurt. Yeah, sorry, I can't get rid of the pig-out thingie. I told myself that...

Some years back, the sight of a plane in flight was a beautiful sign of good luck, a portent of something pleasant about to happen. Etched a...