I Call Myself Earth Girl by Jan Krause Greene
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
It has been more than a week since I finished reading this book and I have been struggling with how to review it. It breaks most of the standard rules for fiction–genre, literary, or otherwise–but is surprisingly affecting and effective in its message, in spite or perhaps because of its idiosyncrasies. Continue reading Book Review: I Call Myself Earth Girl, by Jan Krause Greene
Halloween is traditionally a time when you see a lot of doors. It’s dark, and you knock on your neighbors’ doors and ask them for candy. These might be doors you never knock on any other day of the year. Continue reading Thursday Doors: Happy Halloween!
It has been 2 weeks now. I have been working on my novel every day for 2 weeks. I’m generally terrible with “every day” goals but I managed to get this system up and running again for the novel. And now the chain is long enough that I don’t want to break it by missing a day. Continue reading The Calendar
The official Mundane Monday Challenge post is late this week. I will link to it if it is published, but perhaps the organizer, Jithin, needs a much-deserved break. (Note on Oct. 28: The Mundane Monday Challenge #82 has been published!) Continue reading Mundane Monday: Patterned Leaves
I guess it’s a thing now: in my universe, Thursday Doors happens on Friday. You know, maybe I could learn to use the handy dandy Word Press post scheduling function . . . or not. Maybe next week. Continue reading Thursday Doors on Friday: The Norma
It’s a full moon in October, and we are finally having significant rain here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rain means clouds and they frame the moon. Continue reading Mundane Monday: Moon
The Secret King: Lethao by Dawn Chapman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book bears a heavy responsibility. It is part of a larger team enterprise called The Secret King, which has a website, several book titles, a dictionary, audiobooks, 3D artwork, and a created language associated with it. This book, Lethao (named for the home planet), is where it all starts in more ways than one: it introduces the important characters, their conflicts, and their quest. Continue reading Book Review: The Secret King–Lethao, by Dawn Chapman
Last week I said I thought I was out of good pictures of doors. I had already taken the picture I’m using for this post but I wasn’t sure what to write about it. Continue reading Thursday Doors: Institute for the Future
While out hiking or geocaching, especially in Massachusetts but also in California, you end up seeing a lot of rock walls. But this particular mundane-looking wall is part of a larger sculpture by Andy Goldsworthy called Stone River on the Stanford Campus.
The sculpture wasn’t here yet while I was attending graduate school; it was built in 2002. It is made of sandstone bricks from campus buildings damaged in the earthquakes of 1906 and 1989, among others. The local sandstone is known for its color and the pinkish hue it reflects, especially at sunset. Continue reading Mundane Monday: Rock Wall
Bearing witness to the destruction in Haiti from hurricane Matthew.
I also offer this statement from the Unitarian-Universalist Service Committee, and link for donations for humanitarian aid: http://www.uusc.org/uusc-statement-hurricane-matthew/
“We are working with our local partner organizations to assess the effects of the storm on “stateless” people stranded along the Dominican Republic border, and the more than 55,000 internally displaced people still living in camps and temporary shelters around the country.”
OCTOBER 7, 2016
The loss of life and livelihoods, homes and infrastructure, has been staggering.
Most of the deaths were in towns and fishing villages around Haiti’s southern coast, with many killed by falling trees, flying debris and swollen rivers.
Authorities are still trying to assess the situation, but the photos below, published on BBC’s website, give an idea of some of the physical damage that has been done by Matthew when it hit the country as a Category 4 hurricane.
PARTS OF SOUTHERN HAITI REMAIN ISOLATED AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF A BRIDGE AT PETIT-GOAVE.
The now Category 3 Matthew, with sustained winds of 120 miles…
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