There's a lovely new issue of my favorite, Octopus Magazine .

National Reading “2666” Month

a blog at www.newyorker.com

I better hurry and finish. National Flight of the Conchords watching month's pretty good too.

I can edit Word documents on my phone.

Visit Andrea and Patrick's badass Etsy shop . They will take your handwriting and turn it into a usable font for a very small price!

Do you find your handwriting useful or distracting? I'm growing more attached.

Animals Make Us Human

Temple Grandin

Oakland - BART Police Officer Faces Murder Charge

New Year, I Resolve

to learn about money, large and small.
to write more, re-see more.
to be less social.

I have been successful with past resolutions. I changed cities in 2008 (February) and rode a bike (April). 2008: more meetings on the street, more windswept. I had foot surgery, was destroyed, and I recovered. Different. Learning to be windswept and old. I was “more social” in 2007. 2006: probably poetry. 2005: too young to care.

"The tombstone of Roland Burris, age seventy-one, carries the Illinois state seal and is etched with the words “Trail Blazer,” along with a list of positions held (first African-American Illinois attorney general and state comptroller) and an adjacent stone ranking “Other Major Accomplishments.”"

Old with You

by Lily Brown
Kitchen Press