It’s a sign.
I go to Dutton’s (my favorite local bookstore) a few months back and order Come to Me, Amy Bloom’s first collection of short stories, on the strength of this LA Times blurb (by Karen Tapia-Andersen):
Back in college, we read a short story by Amy Bloom that sticks with us to this day. It [...]
José de Gálvez, the ambitious and periodically loony visitador (a sort of inspector representing the Crown) of New Spain from 1764-1772, once considered importing 600 apes from Guatemala to quell an Indian uprising.
Sounds like a private simian security force to me, which got me thinking about the other animal adjectives I know — like [...]
Baking blackbirds into pies or of having one of those mistreated blackbirds peck off a maid’s nose does not sit well with some folks.
From “The Peaceable Table: A Vegetarian Journal for Quakers and Other People of Faith” come two attempts to do a nonviolent rewrite of “Sing a Song of Sixpence.” Both do quite [...]
Today was my youngest son’s first day of fourth grade. I’m hoping to use him as inspiration for the California show I’m supposed to be writing (read: that I should have written years ago). He’ll be studying California history throughout the year, so here’s the plan: I study along with him and the show just [...]
