Author: borkali

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) recently published a body of work collectively called Lynching in America. It includes some audio interviews and a short documentary called Uprooted. I watched this for starters- it is less than 10 minutes. I will look forward to listening to the stories as well but wanted to get up this post before

I read poetry pretty much everyday, at any time when I have a few minutes to myself. I think I may have mentioned in a previous post that I also rip pages out of POETRY magazine and send them off to far flung or nearby friends in the mail. Here are some poems I’ve found

Odd Fellows Hall in Davis, Calif.   My husband and I have jumped back into helping with our local public radio station, KDRT, where the grass roots grow. Earlier this month, we helped with a show including headliner Ross Hammond who is a local guitar legend of Sacramento. We set up a table and chat with folks

Quite the name for a short story! A friend of mine gave me a compilation of short stories to read by Wilbur Daniel Steele, whose stories stem from the early part of the 20th century in America– at a time where there was little sympathy for Chinese immigrants. The story is fascinating and the prose

Last Friday night, after a very long week, my husband and I went to The Crest in Sacramento to see Can’t Be Stopped, of which we knew little about upon entering the theater. In fact, we were so clueless, we had no idea if it was a movie or a live show because the whole shabang

I am finally, officially and proudly in Nadia’s camp of having absolutely no idea how much I read last week. In fact, I was enjoying reading so much yesterday afternoon I forgot all about posting until I started getting lots of good notifications that folks were hanging around here. Whoops! I am really honestly shocked &

Sadly, I am falling behind. I do not think I will catch up but I am going to do my best for the last week of course. I want to comment once more on how this approach of a page goal versus a total number of books has led me down paths I otherwise would

A giveaway for book clubs! I entered to win– why not? How could would that be?!

This week I read many pages of a few works– I finished The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic by Ginger Strand (200 pages) and I also started reading Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss–and the Myths and Realities of Dieting by Gina Kolata (50 pages). I also read, re-read and ripped pages

Hi all, Barbara is new to the blog and she forwarded me this link today. If you are looking for some great recommendations specifically written by female authors, look no further! Here is a link: FEMMES ENVIRONNEMENTALES: YOUR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY READING LIST. And from her note, which I hope she won’t mind me sharing but