A garden of words

“First sentences are doors to worlds.”

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

What books are you reading?

You are what you read

Just call me M+M……for Magazine Maven. I subscribe to a plethora of magazines.

read cover to cover:

Columbis Journalism Review

Editor & Publisher

The Atlantic Monthly

The Economist

The New Yorker

Washingtonian

I subscribe, flip through, and, more often than not, save:

American Photo

Black & White Magazine

Book

Health

Newsweek

Photo Insider

Photo Life

Photographer’s Forum

Reason

Science

Seed

Self

Shape

The Key

The Writer

Time

U.S. News & World Report

Vanity Fair

Vogue

Writer’s Digest

Zoetrope

I’m single-handedly responsible for destroying a forest! The fact that most of these publications are available online has not been lost to me. But I can’t imagine not having my mailbox stuffed with these goodies.

What do you subscribe to? Or do you now access everything online?

Fact and fiction

I’m a collection of contradictions.

Last night, I plopped on my couch and paused on an episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” while channel surfing.

A blond vampire named Spike was telling Buffy that he was terrified. The night before had been the best night of his life because he had held her in his arms and watched her sleep. And now he was terrified.

My first reaction was:

“Aaaaaaaaawwwww… how sweet!”

My second reaction was:

“In real life, that would so turn me off.” (shudder)

And then, with no better alternative on tv, I popped in Casablanca.

What if….. Wednesday

1. What if…. you were born into a different family. How do you think you would be a different person? How would you be the same?

2. What if…. you were allergic to your favorite person. How would you cope?

3. What if…. you were ‘discovered’ by Steven Spielberg. How would your life change? Or wouldn’t it?

4. What if…. your body never required sleep. How would you spend all that extra time?

5. What if…. you witnessed a man snatch an elderly woman’s purse. What would you do?

Please don’t do that

Repeatedly pressing the call button will not cause the elevator to arrive any faster.

That drives me crazy. It’s all I can do to resist the urge to slap their hands!

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

IS there any food better than chocolate?

image compliments of UCSD/Reuters

Smart dust

A team of researchers at UC-San Diego have created tiny silicon sensors that can orient themselves

“The vision is to build miniature devices that can move with ease through a tiny environment, such as a vein or an artery, to specific targets, then locate and detect chemical or biological compounds and report this information to the outside world,” said Michael Sailor, a professor at UCSD’s department of chemistry and biochemistry who led the study.

Science fiction is becoming reality everyday. What would you like these scientists to invent next?

So where’s the party?

REMINDER: This Wednesday, at 5:51 a.m. EDT, Mars will be closer to Earth than ever in recorded history.

Meanwhile, people around the globe are planning “Mars Parties” to celebrate the phenomenon.


Are any of you planning to wake up early to sight the planet? Anyone planning or going to a Mars party?