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and Hot, Blue, and Righteous from Tres Hombres...

Blues :) :) and Lady Day. Who needs anything when you've got Billie Holiday?

Happy Birthday, Mari and just think, your name is a bit close to Mommy and the first time you hear that one, nothing is ever the same. Enjoy!

Yes, hope your day was an enjoyable one, Ions.

Does Jackie Chan count? I really like Rumble in the Bronx. And DS what is SPL?

Happy Birthday, Dire Straits! Many returns

Ugh not usually this wordy...

Well, I would bring this point down to only the physiological aspects. I'll save the emotional/psychological ones for later! Fact is, in science, the growth or culture of cells is not a whole lot unlike the growth and cell reproduction that occurs during gestation. So pregnancy is an in vivo...

I agree with Libre and Abced. The notion of euthanasia, baby or otherwise, is way too slippery a slope. It flies in the face of people who spend their lives working to eliminate disease and even the sort of utter poverty that might not have a prenatal diagnosis for devastating illness. Life just...

:) A few experiences witnessing racism, never feeling it... One Christmas Eve returning from my grandparent's house we saw a huge cross burning in a field, not too far east of Knoxville. My sisters and I were scared, our parents ashen with anger. The folks, much as they hate one another...

Either Pen Paper clips, plastic coated and colorful Book in hand Shelves with a few here and there All three Fiction

Well, 'tis better to be a hillbilly than a redneck. Hillbillies are sweet, transparent people who are trusting, loyal, and lots of fun. Rednecks are, well, they are uncouth. And from elsewhere, not the beautiful mountains. Tactfully, hillbillily yours, Flor

My favorite so far this year. And it's so late but I'll try.... The Road is post apacolyptic, yes, it's sparse, yes sort of, and it's dark, yes, yes, all of that is true. But it's way beyond those descriptors for the savvy reader. This story is about the power of pulling what is good from the...

I'm wondering if the inner bitch or, even better, inner strong woman, is inside all of us. I love her writing because she spreads power to women who live somewhat mundane lives. In so many ways, being a woman is synonymous with a lack of power, and Atwood's razor wit is like a secret power. Hard...

Yes it is. Let's see, I started to watch Charlie Rose late Friday night. First time I've watched anything in months. He was running an old interview with William Styron. But first there were some journalists talking about Iraq and I fell asleep. So disappointed that I missed the Styron portion.

I've read Sophie's Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner and Darkness Visible. Sophie's Choice is full of a lot of unexpected good humor and that possibly serves to make the central story even more beautiful and tragic. It's a wonderful novel and I hope you are able to enjoy it soon. I can still...

Good drugs? When I was in nursing school, I was almost the only one in my class who wasn't taking antidepressants/anxiolytics or prescription meds for modern stresses. It was unbelievable. A few years ago Maureen Dowd wrote one of her best columns ever about Valley of the Dolls type behavior...

oh no Another book that I so badly want to reread. Years ago I lived and worked as a waitress in a tourist town near the Smoky Mtns. That translated to lots of reading time in the evenings and this was one of the best books from that period. The masturbation scene where Ignatius fantasizes...

Peronel, you're doing everything you can by remaining a voter in your neck of the woods. Bush can't run again. But he's not the problem. He's an affable front man for some people who have waited years and years to have control of the House and Senate here. Some people call them right wingers...

The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick --- There are no icons for how this story feels.