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About Me

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My Interests

money, my other blog Cheap Like Me, reading, writing, music, my daughter, my husband, my friends, organizing, art, South Indian food, perfect editing, traveling, getting a little eensy bit richer (or a lot would be OK too)

I'd like to meet:

A talking cat named Smooches.

Music:

radio 1190. my favoritest favorites = white stripes = bob dylan = sixteen horsepower = devotchka. loving tricky and einstuerzende again too.

Movies:

most recent = Fiddler on the Roof : Shrek the Third : Failure to Launch : Mr & Mrs Smith on the hotel tv : Me and You and Everyone We Know : The Namesake : The Holiday

Television:

I watched "The Office" a couple of weeks ago and I keep meaning to watch it again.

Books:

- too many and yet not enough.
currently: 'maxed out,' 'the loved dog,' 'on chesil beach' by ian mcewan.
latest: 'blue angel' by francine prose, 'then we came to the end' by joshua ferris'the peaceable kingdom' by francine prose, 'attention deficit disorder' by brad listi, 'a changed man' by francine prose
recent loves = 'the known world' (edward p. jones), 'gilead' (robinson), 'extremely loud and incredibly close' (foer), 'caramelo' (cisneros), 'desperate characters' (fox), "batorsag and szerelem" (canin), 'the sea, the sea' (murdoch)
keep meaning to read: a book by maxine hong kingston whose title i can't remember; crime & punishment; denis johnson.
These books changed my life, in no particular order: Toni Morrison, especially Beloved. Especially also Jazz and Song of Solomon. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, absolutely. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, Franny & Zooey (rinse and repeat). Ernest Hemingway, everything and especially the short stories, even back when I didn't read short stories. William Faulkner times twelve, and especially Light in August. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man. James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues." Eudora Welty. Alice Walker, Meridian. Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible. Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead. Louise Erdrich - pretty much everything. Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. Francine Prose, especially her short stories. Edith Wharton. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart. Alex Paton, Cry the Beloved Country. Chocolat. Anais Nin's journals. Henry James. Jane Austen. Milan Kundera. Nabokov. T. Coraghessen Boyle. Ivan Klima. Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are. Jonathan Safran Foer. Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior.

Heroes:

the brave

My Blog

What is the world coming to, or updates on reading, listening and living

Wow. This has been a week. Owen Wilson tried to kill himself, Hillly Kristal's dead and Hulk Hogan's son was hospitalized after a car-racing accident (Anyone watch "Hogan Knows Best"? Anyone?).I got a...
Posted by Susanna on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:59:00 PST

Channeling Jimi Hendrix is one thing, but Ratt? Or, I finally bought Icky Thump

A week or so ago, I was at the Starbucks that stands practically alone off the side of I-25 where it meets the road to Longmont. It's not exactly my hangout, but it's where we meet my mother-in-law to...
Posted by Susanna on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:14:00 PST

R.I.P. Sunshine

He looked right perky last night, but he didn't make it. I suggested Burial at Sea, but that made Lydia cry, so we did Burial in Yard, with Stone to Prevent Cats and Dogs from Digging Up Fishy Corpse....
Posted by Susanna on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:18:00 PST

My goldfish is constipated.

That sounds like code for something very naughty, doesn't it? But I mean it literally.We thought Sunshine was gone. He lives in a bowl with water plants on our front porch. The idea being that he'll e...
Posted by Susanna on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:38:00 PST

Random kindness, and "if only I was sure that the head on the door was a dream," cha cha cha

Hey, everyone, it's Random Acts of Kindness and Compassion Day! Not officially, okay, but it's been declared so by this blogger, and I think it's a good idea. Please jump on board and let me know what...
Posted by Susanna on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:08:00 PST

Editors and editing, or my spinning head and a good essay

For those of you who are writers or editors, Salon.com today published a terrific article about editors. I was especially excited to read it because this week I began working with a new client, editin...
Posted by Susanna on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:25:00 PST

Where on earth have I been, or summer vacation is killing me

I used to hear parents say "I can't wait till summer ends!" I would smile and think, uh huh, OK, whatever. Now I get it. Summer is an ordeal. Don't get me wrong, it's fun. But the planning for our six...
Posted by Susanna on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:41:00 PST

An open letter to the Sierra Club membership department

In case you miss it on my other blog.Dear Sierra Club membership services department:Today I opened my mailbox and, as usual, found a stack of fat junk mail envelopes (including three from American Ex...
Posted by Susanna on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:05:00 PST

If you play hooky, be prepared to jump over a bullsnake

This week, work is slow and Lydia is going to art camp only in the afternoon, so we have the mornings off. This year, I decided it was time to buy a state parks pass so we can pay just the once and go...
Posted by Susanna on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:40:00 PST

Mastering the vagaries of the human body, or underwear, moon cycles and oily discharge

We're having a neighborhood turnover on my block. Not a turnover as in pastry -- turnover as in one sale and four rentals in the last month or so. Two rentals were shut down, renovated, and one has be...
Posted by Susanna on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:16:00 PST