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Palabra por Palabra

The days are stacked against what we think we are. ---Jim Harrison

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Jim Harrison and Wang Ping for sure. I have no poets to talk to, as of lately.

Music:

The Marleys. Bob. Stephen. Ziggy. Junior Gong.

Movies:

Stranger than Fiction. Little Miss Sunshine. Happy Feet. The Prestidge. Almost All Woody Allen movies.

Television:

I'm a little obsessed with the food network right now. I want to know how to make every thing.

Books:

AHHHHHH!!!!!! Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Carlos Cumpian, Jim Harrison, Wang Ping, Jack Agueros, Federico Garcia Lorca, Sor Juan Inez de la Cruz, The biography of Frida Kahlo, Tony Hoagland, Dean Young, Frank O'Hara, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Plath & Sexton, The Biography of John Berryman, Ernest Gaines, my boy Franz Wright and his father James Wright and his mentor Theodore Roethke,William Heyen, Linda Nemic Foster, and every thing Nikki Giovanni or Pablo Neruda wrote. I just love poetry. I can't help myself. I'm adicted.

Heroes:

Nikki Giovanni. Laura Esparza. Jim Harrison. Wang Ping. My brother(sometimes). Juan Diego. Sor Juana Inez de le Cruz. Frida Kahlo. My sister. Todd. Rita. Jose. Nieves. Lupe. Any woman who stands up for herself.

My Blog

and..

The only reason people have blogs is so that people that perhaps really don't want to talk to you all that much can know what you are up to.I don't think I will continue typing in this thing.
Posted by Palabra por Palabra on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:32:00 PST

sick...very sick

I'm not feeling well and haven't in the past five days. I don't know what is wrong and nothing I seem to do makes it better. I watched the movies "Legends of the Fall" and it was wonderful even with B...
Posted by Palabra por Palabra on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:22:00 PST

cleaning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have so much cleaning to do today. I don't even know if it is worth talking a shower before hand. And it is so hot out already at a extremely humid 9 a.m.I can't turn the air conditioner on because ...
Posted by Palabra por Palabra on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:31:00 PST

Jim Harrison Can Kick Your Ass

I actually hate to say this, but I think I am reading too much. I should focus more on my writing. Jim Harrison is making me crazy. I think I might be a little obsessed with his words. He can totally ...
Posted by Palabra por Palabra on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:52:00 PST

moving

All of my books are packed. A scene that always makes me sad. I feel all alone when I don't get to look at them. They are like little friends. As I was putting them into there boxes, I remembered read...
Posted by Palabra por Palabra on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:07:00 PST

smoking

Today I decieded to quit smoking...much to my husband's relief. I bought the patch thing and I hope it helps. So this is my little note to everyone who hasn't smoked....DON'T. Quitting is not easy and...
Posted by Palabra por Palabra on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:00:00 PST

Football

I am so happy Italy won. Besides being wonderful to look at, they also don't head butt people in the chest...unlike the one French dude. That was extremely unprofessional.
Posted by Palabra por Palabra on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:03:00 PST