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deborahallison

cuz i'm keepin it real.

About Me

and the love that loves the love that loves the love that loves the love that loves to love the love that loves to love the love that loves.....

My Interests

hypercanes, squibbons + pack-hunting sharkopaths.
Joan Didion. setting the table. soviet counterculture. mobiles. evolution. Big Sur. secret family recipes. the first row of the movie theatre. ghost stories. family pets. room service. WNYC. salt air. surf films. telescopes. used books. thundersnow. backyards. ballerinas. flea markets. skiporn. the Upper Valley. carnivorous plants. Alan Lee Hankin, PhD. YSL. sustainable agriculture. modern art. George Plimpton. the D.L. James house. diving boards. olfactory memory. my grandmother’s closet. when tiny dogs are best friends with really big dogs. and interspecies friendships. and the park. and also:snacks.

I'd like to meet:

The Southern Cross. The Far East. The Great North. The Wild West.

My Blog

last night

we drove out to buzzards bay last night and stood huddled together in a blanket on the beach at 3:30 in the morning counting shooting stars and pretending to know more constellations than we actually ...
Posted by deborahallison on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Was the child happy while he lived?

That is a proper question.The only question.   The best moments in reading are when you come across something  a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things  which you had thought special a...
Posted by deborahallison on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:55:00 PST

truelove

the top of a long list of film stars with whom I've fallen in lasting* movielove:   1. Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager in the Right Stuff 2. Harrison Ford as Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr., in the ep...
Posted by deborahallison on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:37:00 PST

doublefeature

i had never been to a drive-in. we missed it the first time. i was too caught up in the pink sky in the green hills in the aeroplane over the sea. it's so nice to have a summer song. we overshot the d...
Posted by deborahallison on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:15:00 PST

a smooth round stone

we drove out to buzzard's bay again. this time the sun was shining and i was two years older. this time i collected rocks. we stopped at that place the doctor once took me and i devoured a mayo-free l...
Posted by deborahallison on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:56:00 PST

neighborhoods

All day at work the air smelled like ocean and boats and docks. Then at dusk we walked through the north end, drinking spiked nantucket nectars and stopping to peer in shop windows and coo at dogs. I ...
Posted by deborahallison on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:40:00 PST

a brief list of things to which i am fatally allergic:

yup.   amtrak apreesh for not letting me die from anaphylactic shock....
Posted by deborahallison on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:13:00 PST