November 2011
2 posts
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak
I think of this story often (it is one of my favorites) as a reminder of two things
No matter how famous you are, or how important you might become never lose the ability to be surprised and touched by the love of strangers.
Remember the love you had for things as a child, one...
January 2011
1 post
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that...”
– Vaclav Havel
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
3 posts
July 2009
3 posts
“[The Chinese] had as much right to land in America as the Irish, who [are]...”
– anonymous Chinese woman, INS records, 1899
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
– Jack London
June 2009
9 posts
My best friend got engaged. Shellshocked.
Father’s day: walked 19,230 steps today with dad and pup. In fabulous red flats!
Also, there was a helicopter with an Iranian flag attached to it hovering near the federal building in Westwood today. A huge protest on the corner of Wilshire and Veteran.
“[There were] probably no men readier but less competent at approaching women at...”
– Elizabeth Fox Genovese, A Marriage Made in History
There are ants attacking the box of splenda in the cabinet.
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I will never eat half a jar of sauerkraut in one sitting again.
I will never eat half a jar of sauerkraut in one sitting again.
I will never eat half a jar of sauerkraut in one sitting again.
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“I can still pass the class, right?”
– same student, on the consequences of cheating on the final exam
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“But there are other students cheating in here.”
– student, on being caught cheating during final exam
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