barrington99@gmail.com …according to the recipe booklet that accompanied it:Almond Cream Coconut Flan How Spinach and Artichoke Spread Midnight Omelet for for TwoFresh Tomato and Corn Summer SaladSteamed Southern Corn PuddingMaine Fisherman’s ChowderHungarian Beef GoulashFresh Tropical Fruit Bread PuddingDark Chocolate Truffle CakePepper Steak BurritosGolden butter Corn BreadGame Day Chili Cheese DipItalian Cheese and Broccoli Bake Apparently, if … Read more
That my new ballet teacher said this morning: Everything in ballet is either an action, a reaction, or a statement. There is no art without story.” As someone who has been thinking a lot about story lately, this felt relevant. From his demonstration and examples, one can see he is talking about having intention behind … Read more
The Good–On Friday, I received an email from the English department at FSU that my thesis from 2008 had been given a departmental honor. This bit of affirmation comes at a good time for me, as I feel a bit flailing in my current writing endeavors. Thinking back, I can recall that most of the … Read more
1) When I’m writing, I absentmindedly feel for my coursest hairs and pull them from my head. Then I realize it and feel disappointed in myself, because this is how I end up with course, inch-long hairs sticking out of the top of my head. 2) My screenwriting teacher for class tomorrow has emailed and … Read more
Been sleeping a LOT this weekend. Could have to do with arriving back in California around 1 am Sat morning and then staying up to watch the Battlestar Galactica 2 hour final episode. I woke up on Saturday, but then went back to bed in the afternoon and slept a lot, and could not bring … Read more
My friend Rosie just celebrated her third cancerversary. Congrats Rosie. My own “cancer-free” status, has just passed the five year mark–kind of. After a surgery to remove the tumor in December of 03, I had a PET scan in February of 04, that showed clear results. There are a couple of reasons for my uncertainty … Read more
I wrote this a while back for another blog, but I don’t think they used it so I thought I’d share some of the helpful and interesting links. Bluefin tuna are “Too valuable everywhere to be allowed to live anywhere,” Carl Safina in his article “Regulators Are Pushing Bluefin to the Brink.” Apparently a freshly … Read more
I love United States of Tara so much. But it makes me depressed because I can’t ever imagine writing it. But maybe this is because I enjoy it so much that I don’t want to do the hard work of breaking it down into structure and characters with voices. Maybe I could actually. Today was … Read more
i will ask him if it’s true that he and all his celebrity friends really do use the secret formula discovered by a mom to look years younger.
I’m feeling good about the potential of today. The weather is nice, and I just went for a lovely walk with our current house guest, Eric. I had a vague plan that we would walk to the LA County Museum of Art, and use (for the first time since I bought it) my annual pass … Read more