As today Sunday March 8, 2015 is International Women’s Day, and as each Sunday I post an Interesting fact about the number 53, I went in search for an interesting fact about the number 53 and women.
And I found it! In fact, I found a few. But there’s no denying that the most important fact I found is that women comprise 53% of the US population (learned that here). Read more…
Give Up Cold Indifferent Heart for Lent says Pope + Ojai Mardi Gras Party for a Purpose
“Our heart grows cold,” wrote Pope Francis in the 2015 Lenten message. “As long as I am relatively healthy and comfortable, I don’t think about those less well off. Today,
this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference.
It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront.” Read more…
Recipe: Pecan Pie with Rum and Chocolate
The Depression and the Dust Bowl sent my grandparents’ families to California, but they never changed how they ate: fried chicken, flour gravy, biscuits, and cornbread with sorghum molasses—and pecans. Read more…
Wish me luck! Today I applied for a World Nomads scholarship to travel to Sri Lanka as a food blogger!
If you are looking for a few good books to read this spring, books where the authors are exploring issues of identity, crossing borders, overcoming obstacles, and living living sin fronteras, and look no further than these:
- Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
- Violence Girl by Alice Bag
- Life by the Cup by Zhena Muzyka
- Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Creativity: The Practice of Our Own Nature
Billy Collins, US Poet Laureate 2001-2003, says that “Poetry offers the highest level of imaginative freedom of any writing. It doesn’t have to stick to its topic.”
“The poet seeks to get lost in the woods of his own imagination,” according to Collins.
Happy Birthday Dr Seuss! Let’s Read!
Farewell, Leonard Nimoy. You inspired us to always keep reaching for the final frontier. #RIPNimoypic.twitter.com/P7KkDGBehd
— Intel (@intel) February 27, 2015
Each Sunday in 2015 I post an interesting fact about the number 53. As the first Sunday in April follows an eclipse and the first Sunday in May is a full moon, and today is the first Sunday in March, I thought I’d do something astronomical for this week’s “Interesting Fact About The Number 53.”
Plus I’d like to recognize Leonard Nimoy who died on Friday, February 27, just one month shy of his 84 birthday. As the daughter of hard core science fiction buffs and Trekkies, my earliest memories of TV are hearing the Star Trek theme music after I was sent to bed, then creeping down the hall to listen and maybe see while my parents watched. (Keep scrolling for two music videos with Leonard Nimoy that you may have missed plus three clips from the TV comedy The Big Bang Theory). Read more…
Carnical of Mirrors is this year’s Burning Man theme; image from the Burning Man Website
Did you get skunked getting Burning Man tickets this year?
You are not alone! Read more…
Mountain Film Festivals Inspire, Frustrate
We’re just home from Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theater after watching night two of the 2014/2015 Banff Film Festival; we try to catch it every year. For the past three years we’ve missed it in Santa Barbara because it’s on a school night but we’ve seen it in Bishop while skiing in Mammoth. In 2010, my husband missed it entirely as he was recovering from breaking his neck in a bicycle accident.
The 7 minute trailer above gives you a taste of what the films offer –films which leave me hungering not for more films but to get out and make my own adventures.
One of these films featured a young man who broke his back snowboarding in 2007. Now he kayaks, thanks to friends who carry him to the river so he can get into his boat.
This one, as you can imagine, struck a little close to home. In 2010 my husband came so close to dying or to being a paraplegic or, more likely, a quadriplegic. yet, today, he has complete and unimpeded mobility. He can go snowboarding where this other young man can not.
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