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Restaurant Favorites

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La Bella Rosa Bakery - Santa Barbara, CA

Cajun Kitchen - Santa Barbara, CA

Joe's Cafe- Santa Barbara, CA

Harry's Plaza- Santa Barbara, CA

Santa Barbara Shellfish Company, SB, CA

Santa Cruz Market, SB, CA

Rusty's Pizza - Santa Barbara, CA

Giovanni's Pizza - Santa Barbara, CA

Taqueria El Buen Gusto -Santa Barbara, CA

La Tapatia - Santa Barbara, CA

Metropolitan Grill - Springfield, MO

Kai - Springfield, MO

Scratch Cupcakery - Cedar Falls, IA

Fong's Pizza - Des Moines, IA

Hessen Haus - Des Moines, IA

Royal Mile - Des Moines, IA

Django - Des Moines, IA

Zarri's - Albany, CA

Ratto's - Oakland, CA

Fenton's Creamery - Oakland, CA

Juan's Place - Berkeley, CA

Ti-Couz - San Francisco, CA

Bi-Rite Creamery - San Francisco, CA

Beto's Mexican Food - Reno, NV

Sushi Club - Reno, NV

Squeeze In - Truckee, CA

SS Super (Indian food) - Reno, NV

Gussie's Tamales & Bakery - El Paso, TX

Kiki's - El Paso, TX

Chico's Tacos - El Paso, TX

La Michoacana - Waterloo, IA

Johnson's Bakery - Waterloo, IA

Sarajlijas Bakery - Waterloo, IA

Sudan Cafe - Washington, DC

Brophy Bros. - Santa Barbara, CA

Be Nice to your Bartender

 

News Sources

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These are the sources I tap into for information about life and the world.

 

I'm a hopeless NPR junky, and rely on all things Huffington for most everything else:

NPR 

Huffington Post

 

Science News and Info:

Infinite Mind

Speaking of Faith

Science Friday

The Why Files: The Science Behind the News

Atmospheric Optics

 

Magazines I read:

Scientific American 

Scientific American Mind

Popular Science -

Miller-McCune -

Rolling Stone

An incredible source to find newspapers and magazines from around the world:

http://www.allyoucanread.com/

 

The Last Book I Read....

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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Ford County by John Grisham

The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary by Jeff Kinney (w/ Gage)

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

The Blind Side by Michael Lewis

The Outlander by Gil Adamson

The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller

Driftless by David Rhoades

Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry

Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey

Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn Reid Banks (w/ Gage)

Lush Life by Richard Price

Magic Tree House: Monday with a Mad Genius by Mary Pope Osborne (w/ Gage)

I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris

Magic Tree House: Christmas in Camelot by Mary Pope Osborne (w/ Gage)

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow

Under the Dome by Stephen King

Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney (wanted to see what my kid was reading--they're pretty funny!)

Do Justice and Let the Sky Fall: Elizabeth F. Loftus and Her Contributions to Science, Law, and Academic Freedom by Harlene Hayne and Maryanne Garry

Forever Today: A Memoir of Love and Amnesia by Deborah Wearing

Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet

What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain

The Road by Corman McCarthyThe Senator's Wife by Sue Miller

Another Day in the Life of the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside by Katrina Firlik

Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent by John Burnett

This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

I Thought My Father was God and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project by Paul Auster

 The Story of My Father by Sue Miller

Naked by David Sedaris

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Lisey's Story by Stephen King

State of Fear by Michael Crichton

Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell

I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Cell by Stephen King

My Friend Leonard by James Frey

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

Other books I've read prior to me keeping this silly list (pre-April 2006)

On Writing by Stephen King

I Know this Much is True by Wally Lamb

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

While I Was Gone by Sue Miller (I was on a Sue Miller kick for a few months)

Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller

The Good Mother by Sue Miller

Inventing the Abbots by Sue Miller

Family Pictures by Sue Miller

For Love by Sue Miller

The World Below by Sue Miller

The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller

Hurricane by James Hirsch

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen

The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Cry Wolf by Tami Hoag

Night Sins by Tami Hoag

Dark Paradise by Tami Hoag

Dark Horse by Tami Hoag

Alas Babylon by Pat Frank

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

All Stephen King

All Harry Potter

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

A Creed for the Third Millennium by Colleen McCullough

Siddartha by Herman Hesse

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

1984 by George Orwell

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

And plenty of trashy novels by Michael Crichton, James Hall, John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell, Dean Koontz, etc, etc.

Books I remember reading as a kid

House of Stairs by William Sleator

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Time at the Top by David Ormondroyd

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

All the Nancy Drew mysteries by Carolyn Keene

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

A Wind Through the Door by Madeleine L'Engle

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Forever by Judy Blume

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume

Wifey by Judy Blume

Deenie by Judy Blume

Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume

Blubber by Judy Blume

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Promise by Danielle Steele (and a lot of other sappy-spicy Steele books)

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

 

 

Cultural Glimpses

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I love peeking into other people's worlds. These websites let me do that.

This American Life

The Moth

Found Magazine

One Sentence 

11 Points 

Great Moments in Christory 

Zebra Sounds and check out her awesome essay invisible -

PostSecret 

Letters of Note

 

The Arts

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