And the Funeral is Finally Over…
Running on the treadmill in Gold’s Gym watching all the mourners pay tearful tributes to Michael Jackson, I just could not help wondering why…
Why do I blog? A survey
Ms Mazolla at State of Denmark is conducting a meme, where bloggers answer a few questions about their attitudes and motivations. I am doing…
Guilty Pleasures…
In this funny article in The Guardian, the reporter interviews Michelin award-winning chefs about their favorite guilty pleasure foods. The stuff that came out…
8.2 Wizard’s First Rule
When I picked up Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind, I knew what to expect from the novel. A start to a long-winding Fantasy…
Treadmill Walkers? This post is for you…
Just a few months ago, I used to be one of those girls. You know, the ones who walk on the treadmill clutching both…
7.9 The Lost World
I have read and enjoyed most of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mystery stories. This is the first time I am reading one…
The Power of a Chocolate-Chip Cookie
A very interesting article in the New York Times attempts to explain how and why we end up overeating. Dr. Kessler is the head…
Virginia Woolf’s Superb Way with Words
What beautifully-worded sentences and with so much meaning. They don’t make them like her anymore… Without self–confidence we are as babes in the cradle….
7.7 The Good Guy
Always on the prowl for a good suspense thriller writer ala John Sandford or Michael Connelly, I stumbled onto Dean Koontz, and took a…
Happy Birthday, Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie’s birthday is apparently a sign for Islamic fundamentalists to once again bring up death threats. These death threats first happened 20 years…