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About Me
- Clare
- Louisville, Kentucky, United States
- Me gusta escribir, cocinar, pasar tiempo con la familia y todo... sin embargo, más que nada, me importa PENSAR.
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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Ajeno - A nadie le conviene acordarse de lo ajeno, sería acumular demasiados recuerdos. La vida es como un secundario y las relaciones un juego maestro de hilos e...
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Numbers - I was just thinking about two quantities: the number of posts I've made on this blog in the past few months, and the number of books I've read in the same ...3 weeks ago
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Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up - November 12th, 2009 Published in The Nation The other day I received a pre-publication copy of *The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle,* by Davi...3 days ago
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47 + 2 = 49 - My grandmother died on Monday night. It was truly a blessing. She was imprisoned by Alzheimer's disease and dementia for the last four years, so I'm very h...20 hours ago
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Support Bil’in’s struggle - “Just as a simple man named Gandhi led the successful non-violent struggle in India and simple people such as...1 day ago
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How to Make Persimmon Pudding - Oh, there's nothing like a warm slice of persimmon pudding on a crisp fall evening. Looking at this photo, you can see why a lot of folks confuse some pu...2 days ago
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Heekah-Who? - Have you ever heard of a "yam bean"? Of the three cultivated species of yam bean, the first to be scientifically recorded was the Mexican species Pachyrhiz...
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Virgin With Butterflies - Had a pretty sleepless night, so I read the first chapter of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and finished most of my second Harlequin Romance, Virgin With Butt...
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Yo que tú no lo haría, forastero - A raíz de la entrada anterior, discutíamos en los comentarios sobre esas palabras que utilizamos en nuestras conversaciones normales porque las hemos escuc...
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Books 2009
- 11. Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France by Christine Pevitt Algrant
- 10. Poor People by Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. by Olga Shartse)
- 9. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- 8. Language and Gender by Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet
- 7. Catálogo de sonidos por Terrell A. Morgan
- 6. Thinking Spanish Translation by S. Hervey, I. Higgins, and L. Haywood
- 5. El hombre acecha / Cancionero y romancero de ausencias por Miguel Hernández
- 4. Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved trans. by Jonathan Star
- 3. Palestinian Walks by Raja Shehadeh
- 2. King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
- 1. Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
Films/Television 2009
- Arrested Development Complete Series (2003-2006) Mitchell Hurwitz
- Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) Carlos Saldanha
- Pornography: A Secret History of Civilization (1999) Chris Rodley
- Arrested Development Season 1 (2003) Mitchell Hurwitz
- Behind the Green Door (1972) Artie & Jim Mitchell
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) Nicholas Stoller
- And God...Created Woman [Et Dieu... créa la femme] (1956) Roger Vadim
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009) David Yates
- Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) Rawson Marshall Thurber
- Eli Stone Season 2 (2008) Greg Berlanti & Marc Guggenheim
- Eli Stone Season 1 (2008) Greg Berlanti & Marc Guggenheim
- Transformers (2007) Michael Bay
- Che: Part One (2008) Steven Soderbergh
- Quanto Vale Ou É Por Quilo? (2005) Sergio Bianchi
- Madame Satã (2002) Karim Ainouz
- Santitos (1999) Alejandro Springall
- Bar El Chino (2003) Daniel Burak
- Viva Cuba (2005) Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti & Iraida Malberti Cabrera
- Wayne's World (1992) Penelope Spheeris
- LOST Season 5 (2009) J.J. Abrams
- Death in Gaza (2004) James Miller & Saira Shah
- Network (1977) Sidney Lumet
- Up (2009) Pete Docter & Bob Peterson
- Crash (1996) David Cronenberg
- Star Trek (2009) J.J. Abrams
- LOST Season 4 (2008) J.J. Abrams
- Wolverine (2009) Gavin Hood
- LOST Season 3 (2007) J.J. Abrams
- Entre tinieblas (1983) Pedro Almodóvar
- Mujeres al borde de un ataque de 'nervios' (1988) Pedro Almodóvar
- Pepi, Luci, Bom (y otras chicas del montón) (1980) Pedro Almodóvar
- Adventureland (2009) Greg Mottola
- Watchmen (2009) Zack Snyder
- He's Just Not That Into You (2009) Ken Kwapis
- Gilmore Girls Season 7 (2007) NOT Amy Sherman-Palladino
- Inkheart (2008) Iain Softley
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Danny Boyle
- Il Postino (1994) Michael Radford
- Prayers for Bobby (2009) Russell Mulcahy
- The Wrestler (2008) Darren Aronofsky
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) Scott Derrickson
- The Boys (and Girl) from County Clare (2003) John Irvin
- Vanity Fair (2004) Mira Nair
Links to Things of Vital Importance
- WHY Louisville Loves You -- Best Louisville gear!
- Wiktionary - multilingual, open source dictionary
- Schoenhof's Books
- 'Ville Voice Eats
- A Reader's Corner Bookstore: St Matthews, Louisville
- Keep Louisville Weird
- 89.3 FM Louisville's NPR station
- Wisconsin Cheese Cupid
- Real Academia Española (diccionario)
- National Public Radio
- Word Reference: online dictionary
- BirthCare Network of Kentuckiana
Quotes favoritos
- "Algunas veces hay que decidirse entre una cosa a la que se está acostumbrado y otra que nos gustaría conocer." - Paul Coelho
- "Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something." - Gil Scott-Heron
- "As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level." - Paul Wellstone
- "We must never separate the lives we live from the words we speak." - Paul Wellstone
- "If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means, paint... and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Can Gogh
- "The dreams of childhood...its airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good, to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown." - Charles Dickens
- "Every moment of one's life one is growing into more or retreating into less." - Norman Mailer
- “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.” - Jalal ad-Din Rumi
- "I am interested in this world, in this life; not in some other world or future life." - Jawaharlal Nehru
- "To this day Palestinians still have no state or armed forces. Our occupiers subject us to curfews, expulsions, home demolitions, legalized torture, and a highly imaginative assortment of human rights violations. No justifiable comparison can be drawn between the level of official accountability to which Palestinans are held for the actions of a few individuals and the responsibility for the systematic and intense violence against the entire Palestinian population practiced with impunity by the state of Israel." - Samah Jabr
- "There is a secret in our culture. It is not that childbirth is painful, but that women are strong." - Laura Stavoe Harm
- "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them." - Eeyore (from Winnie the Pooh)
- "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrowmindedness, and many of our [American] people need it sorely on these accounts." - Mark Twain
- "An intellectual is a person interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity." - Nicholas Kristof
- "Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own." - Goethe
- "The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you. They are unique manifestations of the human spirit." - Wade Davis
- "In a free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty, all are responsible." - Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
- "If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home." - James Michener
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