Whistling for Moonbeams

This entire hullabaloo over the RH Bill is so frustrating. What the antis need to realize is that women have as much right to their bodies, ...

Love in the context of choice. Love in the context of reality as reality dictates, of the non-dream, of the non-fairy tale, of the non-illus...

Tony and Maria, for the nth time, and I still love this film to bits. I remember getting irked when, years ago, I heard someone say how it...

But then again, this question would always beg to be asked: after the bills have been paid, from which bowels of my paycheck do I get the fu...

These came in from the (e)mail today: Chanson's shoes at age 5 (?) or 6(?), kept by mom all these years, unearthed last Christmas He...

Nowadays, my compulsion to wear 3-inch heels has definitely mellowed. Call it growing old (c ringe ) if you will, but I seem to be realizing...

to compartmentalize my life.

The latest from Radiohead: "Lotus Flower", here .

Tailing the heels of a funked-up first month of the year, my February is brimming over with laughter and Oscar nominees and Grammy winners a...

We find ways, or look for ways. When the creaking of a door reminds us of someone leaving, of someone arriving, of a door opening for memo...

Since it's almost hearts' day and all, thought I'd share this piece of loveliness with you. Indeed, few singers could rival Kare...

This week promises to be a real grind, as Kim's got the measles and I won't be able to take time off from work so I'll be jettin...

And the cares go away like leaves blown by some vagrant wind. Listen to "All I Want" here .

There's something extremely satisfying about looking into a closet of neatly-folded clothes, I realize that now. Yep, after months of pu...

Dragon Dance passing by...

Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul...

After all, the princesses in the fairy tales I read as a child must've had other things to do besides waiting for their happy-ever-after...

The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one j...

or was the point always to continue without a sign? -Louise Gluck, "Matins" I have all too recently realized my folly of letti...

I noticed that there haven't been much to see around here lately. Maybe it's the approaching holidays that's bringing in the slo...

1. Nowadays, the pattern of the bi-monthly paycheck saying "hello" and, after a wee bit of time, "goodbye" has become so...

The prince leans to the girl in scarlet heels, Her green eyes slant, hair flaring in a fan Of silver as the rondo slows; now reels Begin ...

These days, I mainly just breeze along. With the minutes, with the hours, with the days. If you asked me now where my month has gone, I'...

Ennui.

one eavesdrops on and it is of course a good kind of eavesdropping, though one could always choose to exert effort and pretend to be discree...

Mostly, I just stare, then blink, and realize there's nothing to write about. Scenes from my day, or my week, flash briefly across some ...

with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.   -Patrick Young

by Rainer Maria Rilke Swing of the heart. O firmly hung, fastened on what invisible branch. Who, who gave you the push, that you swung...

must already have been in my mind and gone away and I never had one chance to really mull them over. Well, maybe a chance, or two, but the d...

is never where there is and I am made to make do with what is in it: the two shoe boxes under the shoe cabinet, the coffee mug on top of it,...

by Margaret Atwood Men with the heads of eagles no longer interest me or pig-men, or those who can fly with the aid of wax and feathers...

Walking in the rain (and I don't mean a drizzle) on a gray morning (and this is not some drama shit, I had simply forgotten to bring an ...

could be contained by mere words, you throw two into the air, carelessly because you were asked too soon for, well, something someone could ...

"Tonight, I'll show you how dreams are prepared. People think it's a very simple and easy process but it's a bit more compl...

I am so not a beer drinker. Never did learn to like the taste. During nights out, 2 bottles are usually more than enough for me. I'd rat...

Oh, oh, oh! Another film to watch out for!

Watanabe and Naoko have come out on film! Unbelievable. I just hope Tran Anh Hung did justice to this lovely Murakami book. And Radiohead...

I am such a sucker for tiny, girly dresses and I so love this one! I couldn't stop staring at it as it reminded me so much of my rustic ...

The moon was a shining, round plate last Friday, and it was a shame that I couldn't linger outside long enough to admire it. Three minut...

Because I like starting my sentences with "because", I let it go at that. Even if the clock shows 8:19 a.m. and the bottle of my f...

The discovery that you like cherries comes with the discovery of Tequila Rose and the lateness of both introductions hits you the way milk i...

What I'm reading right now: "...the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our love for our love for thin...

"So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about ...

Facebook status for the day: "why is the moon so slight,/ And why does it seem that as soon/ As I locate myself, I move/ Away again/...

to Friday and now, technically,  it's already Saturday and I am still awake. We-ell, there was a nap of an hour and a half in between, b...