Month: April 2009

  • Happy Easter!

    I’m not religious, but Easter was one of my favorite holidays growing up. I mean, who doesn’t love yummy chocolate, baby chicks, and giant bunny rabbits? In fact, I was a lot more upset to learn that the Easter Bunny wasn’t real than Santa Claus. But maybe I always suspected Santa. His handwriting was too…

  • Good Friday

    Wait a minute, I thought every Friday was good by default? I know this one was: From the Friday I spent in Florence with Mengfei (whose birthday was yesterday!) two many summers ago.

  • Weird… but okay

    Any publicity is good publicity, right? Green Pasture Christian Bookstore – The Good Daughters [link now gone] Intelligent Investor Club – The Good Daughters [link now gone] I’m neither a good Christian nor a good investor, so I’m not sure what to think… Anyway, there’s just about a week left until I find out the fate…

  • From a Houston Chronicle interview with Sandra Cisneros, author of the incomparable House on Mango Street: Q: While your books are not directly autobiographical, you often take and remake people and incidents from your own life. Correct? A: Yes, but I mix it up with people not myself. Sometimes I’ll take my story and mix…

  • We think everything we do has to be up to snuff, and we forget that the pure, uncensored joy of living in our own skin comes when we are not attached, 24/7, to either our fans or our critics. – Veronica Chambers, The Joy of Doing Things Badly