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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The squirrels have made a feast of last night's fallen acorns. The newsboy has dispatched the morning paper. The light of the early sun is filtering through the leaves now golden. I'm still awake, thinking about you. I must admit, my days and nights are filled with you. I'm consumed by the ...
I was walking to the bookstore this afternoon. I chanced upon a man, in his late 40s I guess, asking passersby for quarters. He was carrying a sign that read:DYSFUNCTIONAL PENIS. NEED YOUR HELP.Two male students, upon seeing the man, told him, "What you need, man, is Viagra, ...
