If Lia Lee had been born in the highlands of northwest Laos, where her parents and twelve of her brothers and sisters were born, her mother would have squatted on the floor of the house that her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
Release date: September 1997
Mine is a first edition without its dustjacket. This is sad for me.
This book is many things. First, it is the story of a family of Hmong refugees living in [...]

Late Review: My Morning Jacket “Evil Urges”

The news of a new album from the boys in My Morning Jacket brought much excitement to our house. Unfortunately the more and more we heard about the album the more and more we became scared of the album. First, were the rumors that lead singer Jim James was singing in falsetto for much of [...]

Dreams come true, yes they do, in Santa Fe…

It recently came to my attention that Christian Bale might be British. Welsh, to be exact. I’m calling for a recount, because I’d never heard that before, nor have I ever seen one of his movies in which he doesn’t play an American.
I’m not a huge fan of movies. Do you know why? Most of [...]

NBA Finals? Who cares?

Tonight the NBA Finals begin between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers. The league, ESPN and ABC are all drooling over this all-time rivalry match-up, and I’m sure are already counting the millions this series is going to rake in. Both teams have superstars: Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Pau Gasol. Both teams have history: [...]