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Kitchen Sink

  • Why I Wish I Could Sing What I Write

    How beautiful would it be to write your words, your truth, then be able to fully bring them to life through your
  • July's Book Club

    This month, we're reading Third Angel by Alice Hoffman.   Another book by The Hoff I loved: Ice Queen.
  • Next Book Up

    I'm thinking of giving this a whirl -- The Secret of Lost Things -- by Sheridan* Hay. Has anyone read it? Is

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Why I Wish I Could Sing What I Write

Friday, June 27th, 2008

How beautiful would it be to write your words, your truth, then be able to fully bring them to life through your voice, your eyes, your hands?
 
I’ve often longed to sing certain poems I’ve written and have the words leap, writhe, and bloom physically through me. Like, it’s one thing to write about sadness, and […]



July’s Book Club

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

This month, we’re reading Third Angel by Alice Hoffman.
 
Another book by The Hoff I loved: Ice Queen.



Next Book Up

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

I’m thinking of giving this a whirl — The Secret of Lost Things — by Sheridan* Hay. Has anyone read it? Is it like every other book telling of lost manuscripts and obsessed book sellers?
 
*Footnote: Sheridan is the fake name I give to Starbucks baristas and put on those required name badges you have to […]



Kung Fu Panda Giveaway: Time’s Up! Contest Ended at 10PM PST.

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

ROBIN FARNSWORTH WON (13th comment): Please e-mail me to claim prize! Congrats!
 
Contest time is up!
 
I’ll announce winner by Saturday evening!
 
I have one Kung Fu Panda computer game (for PC), three activity CDs (includes a dance video, photo/print projects, frames and cards, stickers, etc.) and a Kung Fu Panda soundtrack (Hans Zimmer) to give away.
 
Just leave […]



June’s Book Club Book

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. Beautiful writing (sometimes bordering on contrived, but only sometimes), interesting characters, absorbing “larger” theme of cultural clashes.
 
Recommended…BUT please note there is not much plot resolution. So if this bothers you, you might want to skip it.
 



Say Hi to The Mom Crowd

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

My friend Amanda debuted her site’s video podcast series today.
 
If you’re a soon-to-be- mom, have small kids or know someone who does, they’d love this first episode. And there’s more to come!
 
Check it out!
 



Did You Read Myra’s PROMPTuesday?

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

This scared me. Can you imagine?



UM…

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Is it good or bad that in certain circles I’m known as the “gallbladder blog?”



That’s Just Not a Sell for Me

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

“Nothing tastes as ‘chickeny’ as a chicken in the crockpot!”



Supa Fly Park

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Does anyone know of a good park in San Diego with slides and see saws (do they not make those anymore? are we THAT afraid of injury and liability these days?), clean bathrooms nearby and non-be-dog-pooped grass?
 
Would also like play structures appropriate for 2-, 4-, and 5-year-olds. Plus a wine drinking fountain.
 



Pandora’s Box: The GOOD Kind

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Have you heard of Pandora? I love it. You type in one of your favorite artists and a super secretish algorithm populates an online radio station with kindred musical artists. It worked for me. I dug almost every song played. Found some new stuff too.



Cool Writing Contest

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

One of my favorite bloggers, Eden, is the editor of a cool literary e-magazine called Toasted Cheese and they’re having a writing contest going on NOW. Check it out HERE.



Beautiful Post for a Beautiful Cause

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Read about Justin and why we want Nate Berkus to care.



Magic Trick

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Does this work for you?
Magic Trick.
i have a theory about it.



Bear Necessities

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

New Man vs. Wild this Friday! New Man vs. Wild this Friday!
I’m keeping vigil for 5 days from now. If a man pronounces “vitamin” like “vit-a-min,” “glacier” like “gla-seer,” and pees on himself to keep warm, I’m so into it.
p.s. My husband knows all about it.



Creative Writer?

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

I’m starting a new San Diego Momma tradition called “PROMPTuesdays.”
 
And it’s going to really lube up those writing muscles (just decided that “lube” really is the kind of word which should only be used in conjunction with “oil”)…BUT, you know what I’m saying, right?
 
Every Tuesday, I’ll issue a new writing prompt and let the talent […]



Butch

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Toots is obsessed with Scooby Doo and this morning looked up from her Doo coloring book to tell me she wants to be Daphne next Halloween.
 
“Great!” I say. That should be easy: mini skirt, boob inserts, bouffant wig. I should find that all in Party City’s “Appropriate for 5-Year-Olds” aisle.
 
Then Toots tells me that for […]



This Month’s Book

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Book club is reading Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky this month.



Fine Fettle?

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

I just got an e-mail from a colleague which began, “Hi, hope all is in fine fettle.”
 
Is that a thing?
 
I haven’t Googled it yet, but I don’t think that’s a thing.
 



Forsook the Folk

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I can’t help it! I like the latest Mariah song.
 
It’s just so me.
 
I mean, don’t you just want to roll around in these lyrics?
 
If there’s a camera up in here
Then it’s gonna leave with me
When I do (I do)
If there’s a camera up in here
Then I’d best not catch this flick
On YouTube (YouTube)
‘Cause if you […]



Book Club

Monday, March 24th, 2008

This month we’re reading Five Skies by Ron Carlson. I’ve heard good things. Word.



Deliciousness

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Trader Joe’s organic creamy tomato soup (in the box), add Trader’s Joe’s “soycatash” (corn and edamame) and TJ’s spelt. Bring to a low boil, then simmer for 30 minutes. Add cracked pepper and a RyKrisp.
 
Is good.
 



Clean Water: NOT an Oxymoron

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Just the fact that I’m drinking treated waste water is enough to send me over, then there’s this alarm-a-thon.



Get to Know TED

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

TED is an annual conference that challenges the world’s most influential thinkers to give the talk of their lives in just 18 minutes.
 
You’ve got to check this out.



Concert Reminder

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

This program works with your iPod to alert you when anyone in your music library is in town for a concert.
 
Very cool, unless your iPod is filled with one-hit wonders.



Good “Cook” Book

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

 
I loved reading about Captain Cook’s explorations in Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Tony Horwitz).
 
Although arrogant, he was gutsy.
Not that it got him anywhere in the end.
 



I Knew Better

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

…than to open the e-mail titled “With Tremendous Force and Volume.”



Info Slurp

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Is there a software or technology out there which allows people in your general vicinity to see what you are doing/writing on your computer? Like a Google Earth but with computers? Where people can zone in on you and see your computer screen on theirs?
 
I hope not.
 



He Ain’t Heavy (But Yes He Is)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Thanks to my brother for this link.
It’s a poem from the New Yorker.
Here’s a poem my brother wrote.
I like it too.
 
p.s. To see my bro’s poem, go to this link, click on Scribble, then on the photo with the red-shaded lamp. You’ll be glad you did.



Happy Slip

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Yes, indeed.



Really? The Sex and the City Guy?

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Have you read the Memory of Running?
You should.
Then, please tell me who the author played in Sex and the City. It wasn’t the senator, right?



Like a Puppet

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

 
I disappoint myself when these types of videos get to me.
I know the message is worthwhile, I do. But it’s that they orchestrate the music, the photos, the words, to intentionally make you cry.
And then it becomes about the making-you-cry, and not about the making-you-think. (The fact that I’m bothered by that just highlights my […]



A Day Late

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Well, now that the writer’s strike is pretty much over, I find this hilarious video.
Maybe not as relevant, still as funny.



Fun with Words

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

This could be what puts me over my allotted Internet time…



Best Song Ever (For now)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Answer by Sarah McLachlan is simply the most lovely song I’ve ever heard. Makes me cry every single time. I would play this at someone I love’s funeral.
(I just blew the vibe, didn’t I?)



Best Book Ever

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

The Thirteenth Tale is the kind of book that revives your love of reading. It’ll make you stay up all night, hurrying to the last page. Or, maybe you want to savor it. I don’t savor, I rush. I’m working on it. Still, the book almost made a savorer out of me.