HELIOLITH

(Ok, so I made up bloguista; but doesn’t it sound better than ‘blogger’ in Spanish?) I haven’t really had much of a chance to read it very thoroughly, but Antonio Ungar is blogging now about daily life in Israel as a Muslim convert. He’s a Colombian journalist, and Semana.com just launched his blog, Diaro de […]

I’m grabbing an easy meme to unclog my pen, after Robert S. indirectly tagged me…
Four jobs I’ve had:
-teacher
-retail clerk
-census worker
-massage therapist
Four movies I can watch over and over:
-Princess Bride
-AmoresPerros
-Bend it Like Beckham
-Los Amantes del Circulo Polar
Four Places I’ve lived:
-Santa Cruz, CA
-Morelia, Mexico
-Sleepy Hollow, NY
-Berlin, Germany
Four TV shows I love!
(Very difficult, as I haven’t received a […]

The rumbling of oversize pickups on the freeway
blown up the hill to my frontyard
float by me: indifferent,
where before the slightest vibration
nearly pushed me off the edges of sanity
as i sit here after running to the sea and back
the aroma of sand and the faintest stench of cats […]

I thought that since the clocks are turning back tonight, I’d use the extra hour to come up for air, re-initiate the space with voice, text, and life. If you wondered where I’ve gone (as I do when someone whose blog I’m accustomed to checking up on goes quiet for a while), I’ve […]

Back in Brooklyn after six lovely days swimming in in the lake with beautiful B, my niece, and five gorgeous nights dancing on the deck with screaming G. How I love them so. This was the second of two incredible vacations for me over the past few weeks. I had only just returned from Europe […]

Thomas L. Friedman wrote a scathing op-ed in the NY Times today, satirically extolling the hypocrisy and selfishness rampant in our country.
I choose to gives thanks today on Thanksgiving. It’s not to remember the brief moment in history when allegedly native americans welcomed pilgrims and feasted with them, only to later be betrayed and […]

Michael Michael Motorcycle, how I have been dreaming about a homemade motorcycle since–well, since last night when I saw the Motorcycle Diaries. In addition to deciding I had to read it again, this time in Spanish, and also try to reread Subcomandante Marcos’s revolutionary writings, that movie made me want to build my very own […]

dreampt that i was really high up in a building, sneaking around-
-this was just the last part of the dream, the rest was epic in proportion, and has mostly escaped me now, I should have journalled upon rising–
a custodian was working up there–
I feel so well rested it’s amazing– I worked really hard […]

What mammal can you spell by re-arranging the word love???

Thanks to Boing Boing for linking this neat article: BBC: History made as man beats horse I didn’t think that a person could beat a horse in a 22 mile race, but maybe horses lack the endurance that this athlete demonstrated! Amazing.