February 2012
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January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
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October 2010
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January 2009
6 posts
Our president’s approval rating is somewhere between pictures of baby pandas on...
– Maddow (via uoma) (via kvknowsherfun)
According to American psychologist Martin Seligman, depression in humans is...
– Major depressive disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the...
– JD Salinger (via bmckdghjlnpf) (via illuminatedwallflower) (via breathsoftruth) (via lovebot)
December 2008
1 post
September 2008
1 post
75 books every woman should read.
bolded = i own it and/or it’s on my list of books to read. crossed out = i’ve read it.
The Lottery (and Other Stories), Shirley Jackson
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Wide...
July 2008
1 post
We do the right things in life simply because they are the right thing to do.
May 2008
6 posts
I just want to be able to give people the one thing they’ve always wanted.
– someone said it, and it was worth remembering
But then again, I lost interest easily. I think I have people ADD.
– someone on sg
FTD - Frontotemporal Dementia - Brain Disease -... →
Cognitive Dissonance in Monkeys - The Monty Hall... →
we don’t get a money back guarantee for damage we’ve done to...
You can grouse all you want about “the high cost of living,” but...
– MSN Money
April 2008
25 posts
I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it,...
– Ernest Hemingway
If there is still something essentially beautiful about art, it is that it is...
– Yale Daily News - Art lecturer: Yale erred in banning Shvarts’ art
Believe me, we don’t love them hos.
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human...
– Pearl Buck - US novelist in China (1892 - 1973)
It is thanks to the incomparable stars,
Blazing in the depths of the sky,
That...
– The Lamentations of an Icarus, Baudelaire
I want to conduct each day of my life in the best possible way…. And I...
– From the play Conduct of Life by Maria Irene Forbes
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none...
– Jane Austen (Persuasion)
Is it any wonder that we are concerned about the lack of discipline “in” our...
– Sharpie abuse in our schools
The Area's Last Public Phone Booth Is Shabby but... →
The Area’s Last Public Phone Booth Is Shabby but Holding On
You spend too much time slouched and demoralized. Your boyfriend suggests...
– How to Become a Writer, Lorrie Moore
Looking to honor the forty-third President of the United States of America,...
– The SFist on the San Francisco movement to name a sewage plant after the much-adored current president of the United States.
1 in 50 infants suffer abuse, government finds →
March 2008
8 posts
Mad Girl’s Love Song
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;...
– Sylvia Plath
“Goodbye,” said the fox.
“And now here is my secret, a very...
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince