Thank You For the Music: Part 1

I remember watching this performance with my sisters, after days of anticipation, jumping hysterically on my mom's bed, screaming and crying and pulling our hair out.



I really believed we could heal the world!

Can't Stop Listening To This!

A favorite Joni Mitchell song of mine, sung so beautifully by Diana Krall. Her voice is amazing! Never heard her until I accidentally stumbled across this while searching for Joni Mitchell videos. I'm a fan now!

Good Food!

People ask me how I find the good eats in Salt Lake. Well, it all started when I got really bored of dining in the same old chains with hour-long waits for frozen food shipped and defrosted, loaded with not so healthy preservatives and who knows what else (not that I can't enjoy the classic Olive Garden salad every now and then). I noticed what a better experience it was to eat at the yummy dives like Red Iguana or Ruth's and wanted to find more of these options.

But I don't live in the city where I might stumble across good food easily, so I actually have to do some research to find the hidden gems. Now it's a hobby; finding good food in charming little local places run by imaginative people who've put their heart and soul into the restaurant of their dreams. I know I over-romanticizing it a bit, and not many places are this special, but Gloria's Little Italy is one that is!

A few more: Eggs in the City, Cafe Med, and Flour Girls and Dough Boys.

This issue: Salt Lake Magazine: 100 Utah Foods has been an indispensable guide to my good food hunting. Hope you'll use it too, and share your good food finds with me!

Book High!

Someone took some really cool college courses and donated to Classic Books, where used books are collected and sold, in-store, for Mothers Without Borders funds. So awesome. More awesome is me taking home all of these titles for under $25! Yeehaw!

Blake: Complete Writings
The Collected Poems of Dorothy Parker
Patterns in Comparative Religion
The Ladies of Missalonghi
Interpretation of FairyTales
Pictures from Brueghel and other poems: William Carlos Williams
Hermann Hesse: Poems
Psyche's Stories: Modern Jungian Interpretations of Fairy Tales
The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation
Without Reservations: The Travels of An Independent Woman
The Essential Rumi
The Feminine in Fairytales
The Art of Sylvia Plath
The Middle Pillar
Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion
Mysteries of the Dark Moon
Skymates: The Astrology of Love, Sex and Intimacy
Alpha: The Myths of Creation
Myths, Dreams, and Religion
Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences
The Origins and History of Consciousness

Love Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry

This often-cited quote always kind of bugged me. Until I read the book. Now I get it! I loved this book! One of my all time favorites. I don't recall finishing a book and instantly wanting to read all others by the same author until now.



I remembered watching the movie with my mom as a young kid but very little of the story. Only a beautiful girl with great outfits and one very handsome blond boy. :) Can't wait to watch it again! SO glad I read the book, ahhhhh, read if you want to good sad love story that is insightful and brilliant. Loved the characters.

Not a Book Review

This one will be added to my list of all-time favorites. I'd never heard of it before the used book sale. Many thanks to Olivia for recommending it! The stories are little slices of reality told with poetic softness. Truly original.



"I make a story for my life, for each step my brown shoe makes. I say, "And so she trudged up the wooden stairs, her sad brown shoes taking her to the house she never liked."

This book is the reason I read!