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My wife first notices it from the window of our hotel room in Venice Beach. Every evening, in the alley out back, a small shack appears made from a complex arrangement of orange traffic cones, blue tarps and shiny chrome supermarket trolleys. The next morning it is dismantled, the the tarps neatly folded and everything stacked in an orderly pile. We never see who does it, nor hear any

I've just been on the phone with my wife discussing the movie Eat Pray Love or, as the local cinema in Ottumwa where she saw it billed it, Eat Prey Love, which I assume is the arachnid version.

I haven't seen the movie yet but I read the bestselling book by Elizabeth Gilbert on which it is based. It describes the adventures of a young writer (herself) who, on the rebound from a bad relationship

Tehachapi, CA: I look out my hotel window and see two inches of snow and the low gray clouds of a late winter storm and decide it's time to visit Death Valley where I can pretty much guarantee it will be 85 degrees or more.

Death Valley is a deep cleft in the landscape on the eastern edge of the Mohave Desert, 250 miles or so inland from the Pacific Ocean. It contains the lowest land in North

 A couple of weeks ago, I attended the premiere showing of Saving the Disposable Ones by British filmmaker Stuart Tanner who is head of the film department at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield. Produced by The David Lynch Foundation in conjunction with Hollywood producer Joanna Plafsky, Tanner's documentary covers the work of Father Gabriel Mejia rescuing homeless children from

 

 

I've been on a bit of a hiatus from writing my blog recently but was amazed to notice that I hadn't posted anything since last November. My main excuse is that I was plain exhausted from driving 2-3,000 miles a month in my day job as a land agent for wind farms (I knew I was in trouble when I went to the cinema one day, sat down, and tried to fasten my seat belt). When you combine winter in