Author: rri

March 17, 2000

LDR, 25 Poems

LDR lives in Pacific Beach, California. This is a small sampler of her poetry.
(Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000. Reprinted with the author’s permission.)
January 16, 2000

Pride and Prejudice

If you’ve read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, post your comments for other readers.
January 16, 2000

As I Lay Dying

If you’ve read William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, post your comments for other readers.
January 16, 2000

Mrs. Dalloway

If you’ve read Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, post your comments for other readers.
January 16, 2000

Invisible Man

If you’ve read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, post your comments for other readers.
October 31, 1999

Things That Go Bump

The Great Unbelievable Thing: In September 1999, as millions of pimple-popping adolescents and college kids presumably left behind all thought of sunshine and the great outdoors to return to school and the midnight glow of interminable computer screens, "the number of active Web consumers dropped a slight 2.81 percent from 66.8 million to 64.9 million."
October 27, 1999

Lost Angeles

I recent read an article quoting the late Herb Caen, my favorite San Francisco columnist. When asked his opinion of Southland, he replied, "I’d like to get to know Los Angeles, but I never can find it."
Unlike Herb, after much serious thought and extensive investigation I think I have found it–but I can’t hold on to it.
October 24, 1999

Like Herding Cats

For more than a year now, the media have enthralled us with the threat of anarchy on a global scale: the total breakdown of crucial informational, financial, commercial, social, governmental and even physical infrastructures directly caused or indirectly precipitated by the Y2K Millennium Bug.
October 6, 1999

The Dog In The Temple

Atisha, also known as Dipamkara Srijnana, was an Indian monk and scholar who arrived in Tibet around the year 1038. He’s credited with reintroducing Mahayana Buddhist texts, practices, and ethical principles to a region where Buddhism had been largely reabsorbed and rendered almost unrecognizable by Tibet’s indigenous Bon religion and numerous shamanistic cults.