current obsession:

L'Abri ideas library.

Over 1,000 (free) audio downloads, with titles ranging from Classical Music and the Loss of Meaningfulness in the Post-Christian West to Eastern and Western Spiritual Values to The Use and Abuse of Language - What is Good and Edifying?

University on an ipod.

home again, home again, home from the sea

My last day off as a California nanny, roaming the tiny downtown shops

This means you

Library is the name of the game. The name of the game is Library.

You know how on long car rides, you "go on a picnic," and take apples and bread and carrots and dark chocolate and...

Now we're going to the library. We're going to the library, and we're going to return...

Animal Farm.

Check the comments for current letter status.

Can your great brain supply a title within twenty seconds of knowing the letter?

Must be a book you've read.

Fiction preferred. Because fiction makes the world go 'round.

Also chai.

And ginger.


(P.S. No cheating on Google or Goodreads or anything)

in cuileann's city

through a lens darkly

two by two

at last, we cross ways

endless chai

rosy-fingered dawn

giving her camera a scolding

remember that oregon trail music that played every time someone died?

What Your American Girl Doll Says About the Rest of Your Life.

I've possessed a Kirsten since age 4.

Kirsten Larson:
You probably got Kirsten because she was blond, or because you read a lot of Little House on the Prairie books...

Whatever superficial motivation led you to choose Kirsten, you quickly learned that life as a Swedish immigrant in Minnesota is not all lingonberry pie and ice fishing. Not halfway through the first book does Kirsten's best friend Marta die suddenly and tragically of cholera. This was shocking and horrifying. Obviously, you were used to cholera deaths (this being the age of Oregon Trail), but this time it was different.

You therefore grew up to be a bit more thoughtful, a bit more reserved than your peers. You also find yourself inexplicably drawn towards crafts like knitting, jam-making, and quilting. You secretly suspect that you'd manage just fine in a post-Apocalyptic setting, should things come to that. You were surprised and delighted to see some of Kirsten's outfits come back into style in certain enclaves of Brooklyn.

I have decided...

to write my novel on a typewriter. Also snail mail (on the typewriter).

Now to buy a typewriter.

I like this one because it's cheap and because it appears that my future husband has one: (from Amazon) “this is #4 brother GX6750 typewriter i have owned. i am a writer. they outlive their warranties and die unusual deaths. i could just as well order multiple boxes of them, stack them and bury the old ones as they die off."

babies!