what i'm reading now

The Pleasure of My Company, Steve Martin
Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
Maybe Baby, Lori Leibovich

broken heart mountain

"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."
--Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

the mailman ran over my head

"If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. As formative events go, nothing else comes close; my careening, zigzag existence, my wounded brain and faith in God, my collisions with joy and affliction, all of it has come, in one way or another, out of that moment on a summer morning when the left rear tire of a United States postal jeep ground my tiny head into the hot gravel of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation."
--Brady Udall, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

what i'm reading now

Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book, Bill Richardson
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome

It's good when there's nothing to watch on TV!

butt out

"There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions -- a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude."
-- Geoffrey Fisher