My Life is Like…

My life, as described on-screen:

• Humor?  The Princess Bride
• Philosophy?  Scrubs
• Exercise?  Singin’ in the Rain
• Religion?  The Secret
• Animals?  Wishbone
• Food and Wine?  Babette’s Feast
• Marriage?  When Harry Met Sally
• Children?  Little Women
• Politics?  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Mindlessness?  Red Green
• Nature?  Grizzly Man

A Few Good Books:

Lonesome Dove, Atonement, Ulysses, Catch-22, Brave New World, Narcissus and Goldman, Catcher in the Rye,  Angle of Repose, The Call of the Wild, To Kill a Mockingbird, This House of Spirits, Ex Libris, Jitterbug Perfume, The Thorn Birds…

A Few Good Movies:

Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Strangelove, Midnight Cowboy, Roman Holiday, Dr. Doolittle, Some Like it Hot, Wizard of Oz, My Fair Lady, Young Frankenstein, Father of the Bride, The Claim.

On Writing:

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.  ~Anton Chekhov

Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies.  ~Emme Woodhull-Bche

What can a character come to know, of himself and others, by working through a given situation?  That is what fiction asks, with an emotional urgency driving it all the way; and can he know it in time?
~from The Eye of the Story, by Eudora Welty