This year's program examines the dichotomies of borders and cultures from the writer's perspective. Because lines on the map do not necessarily define lines on the page, this year's program is titled "Migrating People, Migrating Literature." The 2008 program presents four special foreign authors with ...
Traveling to many communities have brought me to many experiences —mostly encounters of acquiantances.
You just don’t get to meet a person or group of people, you get to meet and have a chance to be in touch with their culture, their history, their and their varying experiences.
The different-ness and uniqueness result to dialogues ...
I haven't posted an entry about our regular reading at the Prairie Lights Bookstore or Shambaugh house for four weeks now. The primary reason: a writer admonished me for my Conradian description when I referred to one continent using an adjective five tones deeper than my sun kissed peau. But I find ...
a devil scorpionfish doesn't look friendly, as devils aren't supposed to... the devils i've met so far are black, ugly, with those insect-like legs. until i met this white one, which fascinated me to no
I was the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by Victoria and Ramon Lim. They are both neurologists teaching at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Ramon graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, and has been in the US for fifty years. He is also ...
In an article on TheStreet.com, Jeffrey Strain wrote about ten (more) reasons why people do not become rich. Strain contends that, "Becoming a millionaire has less to do with how much you make, it's how you treat money in your daily life."
I got myself Beck's new album Modern Guilt. "Welcome to Beck's midlife spiritual crisis" is how Rolling Stones describes the album, which has ten tracks. Beck collaborated with Cat Stevens in two songs. My favorites are Gamma Ray, Youthless and Chemtrails. Listening to the songs ...
