Author Archives: Amber Luck

Where Words Come From

August 24, 2009 –

Tonight at dusk I wandered for a little while in the wooded park behind our new apartment building, where except for the distant roar of freeway traffic and the occasional like-minded, back-trails hiker I get to feel totally alone. I gulped in the smell of dirt and trees and berries and flowers, and I closed [...]

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50: The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. Lee

May 24, 2009 –

I’m glad I read this detailed and open-minded exploration of where our Chinese food comes from (both the recipes — many of which are all but unknown in China — and the people who cook, serve, and deliver it to us). I’ll never look at General Tso’s chicken the same way again.

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Deadbeat Blogger

May 21, 2009 –

I’ve been doing a lot lately. Not blogging, obviously, or any other kind of writing (unless you count addressing envelopes). Not reading. Not going out for dinners and drinks and movies. Not taking walks.
I have been intensely stressed out, mostly in the name of bridesmaid dresses and perfect invitation wording and the outrageous cost of [...]

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50: The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg

May 3, 2009 –

This book was interesting (with philosophy, magical realism, truisms worth dogearing pages for), very exciting (with fight scenes, earthquakes), and funny (with dry humor that usually caught me off guard), but it didn’t draw me in very deeply — I think because I couldn’t see enough of myself in the characters.

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Rearranging My Priorities

April 23, 2009 –

My plan is working, and it’s not. On a beautiful day about a week ago, I walked to a nearby meat market instead of driving, and was rewarded with uncharacteristically warm feelings toward my neighborhood. As a bonus, I found these daffodils growing in a flower bed alongside the church where we voted last year.

I [...]

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