Whistling for Moonbeams

The girl puts a bookmark on the page she's been reading and thinks, the woman in the story is me. I am in the story. This is my story. T...

Happiness is a pair of killer heels.

This movie is hilarious. If you're bored and are looking for a no-brainer movie to see, this should be a good choice.

Tsk, tsk. Been blog-hopping again and saw several posts on deelish food and here I am, hankering for shellfish pasta. Tsk, tsk. What a sham...

*continued from here 6. dress to kill. Go put on that black, long-sleeved turtleneck top, those crisp, gray pants and three-inch, killer sti...

Am so lovin' this... the alpha female roaring... teehee! *Photo from LeLove . (photo caption: "Because it wouldn't be love with...

At 7:38 this morning, I saw a firefly blinking its yellow glint against a nearby calamansi tree. It was alone and I stared at it, wondering...

Putting her foot down and assuming the role of alpha male are a couple of the tricks an emancipated woman soon learns after stepping out of ...

Have gotten in touch with High School best friends over at Face Book. Very recently, someone's status update about putting one's foo...

hmmm...

and the one thing that might cause me to shift is the dancer's step. -From "Vase Painting," by Rainer Maria Rilke- I am waitin...

I have, officially, become a Face Book Farm Town addict. I never would have guessed, as I've never been a gamer my entire life. This ag...

Everyone in the jury voted for him. Yeah yeah yeah! Sorry, Stephen.

Nothing really spectacular about this film, except Natalie Portman, the costumes (loved 'em) and the lengths they went to to romanticize...

I think it's sad, the way people get scared when parcels of themselves get exposed, bits and pieces they'd rather keep stuffed insid...

Good thing the 7-Up can was empty, else a good portion of the table cloth would have ended up soaked in the sweet, chemical-rich liquid. Sti...

People are breaking, breaking, breaking... Dear God, please help them get through whatever it is they need to get through. Meanwhile, I stan...

So what if they think you're less of a girl because you refuse their help in carrying those big, bulky things? If you can stretch your s...

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore..." I just...

This is pure heaven. Now, I finally understand why people are lining up for said chocolate at the Power Plant Mall, Rockwell. And I got it f...

After weeks of installment reading, I finally finished: My take on it? It's Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Enough said.

I have just come fresh from blog-hopping and all these people writing about food really get to my nerves--or, my stomach! I don't like a...

On FB, today, I tinkered, once more, with the "Top 5 Things" thingie (love this application!) and, so far, here are two of the lis...

It being a stormy day and all, life in the office was all sunshine-y today. In some random way, things seemed to be falling into place--I, t...

Dave Matthews Band, "Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King" Release date: June 2, 2009

I've crossed out this movie from my to-watch list. Why? Because I've already seen it, that's why. =) Like "Taken," thi...

A: That was stupefying. Downright stupefying. B: I know. Kaufman's movies always, always make me think. But this has got to be the worst...

I had to choose, between two movies, which one to watch first. And, after my very high-strung week, I'm glad I chose this: "I love ...

All those cliches about merry-go-rounds, roller coasters, wheels, et cetera have more than a grain of truth in them: round things do turn; ...

We ask that life be kind... - from "The Prayer"- Truth is, we are all children trying to find our way in this world.

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...