mother, student, lesbian, part time burlesque performerTumblr (3.0; @calamityrain)http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5edd17698305ebda93c36ed05bf56d6d/tumblr_mfx8uuUuyh1qdgi04o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://6n6challenge.com/post/39345798482/in-no-particular-order-my-book-consumption-list" class="tumblr_blog">6n6challenge</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>In no particular order, my book consumption list of 2012:</strong></p> <ol><li><em>The Neon Bible</em> - John Kennedy Toole</li> <li><em>The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 2: 1953-1954</em> - Charles Schulz</li> <li><em>Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore</em> - Robin Sloan</li> <li><em>Anansi Boys</em> - Neil Gaiman</li> <li><em>Eating Animals</em> - Jonathan Safran Foer</li> <li><em>Journey to the Center of the Earth</em> - Jules Verne</li> <li><em>The Art of Persuasion: A National Review Rhetoric for Writers</em> - Linda Bridges</li> <li><em>Penrod: His Complete Story</em> - Booth Tarkington</li> <li><em>The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats</em> - Hesh Kestin</li> <li><em>Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone</em> - JK Rowling</li> <li><em>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets</em> - JK Rowling</li> <li><em>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</em> - JK Rowling</li> <li><em>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</em> - JK Rowling</li> <li><em>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix</em> - JK Rowling</li> <li><em>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince</em> - JK Rowling</li> <li><em>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows</em> - JK Rowling</li> <li><em>Devil in the White City</em> - Erik Larson</li> <li><em>Half Empty</em> - David Rakoff</li> <li><em>Long Day’s Journey into Night</em> - Eugene O’Neill</li> <li><em>30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary</em> - Wilfred Funk</li> <li><em>Word Power Made Easy</em> - Norman Lewis</li> <li><em>The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey</em> - Candice Millard</li> <li><em>Dialogos Em Roma: Conversations On Art With Michelangelo Bounarroti</em> - Francisco De Hollanda</li> <li><em>In the Blink of an Eye</em> - Walter Murch</li> <li><em>The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose</em> - Woody Allen</li> <li><em>And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft and the Industry</em> - Mike Sacks</li> <li><em>The War for Late Night</em> - Bill Carter</li> <li><em>Color Harmony</em> - Christopher Simmons</li> <li><em>Photoshop CS5 Digital Classroom</em> - Jennifer Smith</li> <li><em>How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud</em> - Kenneth L Fisher</li> <li><em>The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers</em> - Christopher Vogler</li> <li><em>The Hunger Games</em> - Suzanne Collins</li> <li><em>Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain</em> - Betty Edwards</li> <li><em>The Odyssey</em> - Homer</li> <li><em>At the Crossroads: Not-For-Profit Leadership Strategies for Executives and Boards</em> - Philip Coltoff</li> <li><em>The Origin of Species</em> - Charles Darwin</li> <li><em>Collected Poems</em> - Sylvia Plath</li> <li><em>Boxing’s Ten Commandments: Essential Training for the Sweet Science</em> - Alan Lachica</li> <li><em>Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World</em> - Bill Clinton</li> <li><em>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</em> - Stieg Larsson</li> <li><em>Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Essential Golden Braid</em> - Douglas R Hofstadter</li> <li><em>Roger Nix President At 6</em> - Nick Dazé</li> </ol><p><strong>May 2013 be a bright chapter in your own book</strong></p></blockquote>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/39384102677http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/39384102677Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:28:16 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbr2sxFarc1qbbrt2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://alackofcolorbyheather.tumblr.com/post/33389420441">alackofcolorbyheather</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Lily Cummings at Dorothy Combs by <a href="http://www.heatherhazzan.com/#!photography">Heather Hazzan</a></p> </blockquote>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/36601074780http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/36601074780Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:12:39 -0500“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”<br/><br/> - <em>Sylvia Plath (via <a href="http://un-gendered.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog">un-gendered</a>)</em>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/36572127083http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/36572127083Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:39:46 -0500<a href="http://becomingiron.tumblr.com/post/36530171351/you-know">Becoming Iron: You know</a>: <p><a href="http://becomingiron.tumblr.com/post/36530171351/you-know" class="tumblr_blog">becomingiron</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>There’s an awful.lot of power in two simple words.</p> <p>No one has to be right</p> <p>No one has to be wrong.</p> <p>All each person has to do is say</p> <p>I’m sorry.</p> <p>But somehow in this day in time its nearly impossible for people to say that</p> <p>I’ve spent my whole life apologizing to people for things that weren’t…</p></blockquote>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/36572012968http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/36572012968Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:37:52 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc3xqkI8yZ1r79lczo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://dancehistory.tumblr.com/post/33854568132/martha-graham" class="tumblr_blog">dancehistory</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Martha Graham</p></blockquote>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/33857599944http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/33857599944Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:03:36 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbeaiaMZso1r46fnpo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.aseaofquotes.com/post/32970685420/ellen-bass-the-thing-is" class="tumblr_blog">aseaofquotes</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”</p></blockquote>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/33588000345http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/33588000345Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:00:05 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbft7mafko1rhbo61o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/33587741796http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/33587741796Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:56:32 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4cfaqHrng1qmypuqo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/30782641980http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/30782641980Mon, 03 Sep 2012 01:42:06 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5qso5Vt1Y1qfhnkio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/30782619482http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/30782619482Mon, 03 Sep 2012 01:41:36 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loqwxkdwuU1qf7ikto1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/29097836075http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/29097836075Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:54:14 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8g7tt6f0k1qjsn5wo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/29097753112http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/29097753112Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:53:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8ewph0kaJ1qbz6f6o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/29097745244http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/29097745244Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:52:53 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8g19oMIic1qbz6f6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/29097621347http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/29097621347Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:51:03 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8igu4VMzb1qj4t1so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/29097079066http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/29097079066Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:43:01 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkyvky5ldC1qgxkg8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://hearourheartsspeak.tumblr.com/post/5492353481/klaus-kampert-photography">hearourheartsspeak</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Klaus Kampert Photography</p> </blockquote>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/29097072400http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/29097072400Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:42:55 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7zgltX1261qdqpv4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/28443473668http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/28443473668Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:26:43 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llej0vrzYp1qi28a7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/28443400369http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/28443400369Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:25:41 -0400<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://totally-relatable.tumblr.com/post/28365838832">totally-relatable</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I’m just like:<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7vvi2u0Ai1rq0hnm.gif"/></p> </blockquote>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/28386645919http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/28386645919Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:41:15 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luxyguHXZs1qh0rbqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/27804929259http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/27804929259Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:30:54 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7dt1p86xu1rwu8ico1_500.jpg"/><br/> CPRowe Photography<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7dt1p86xu1rwu8ico2_500.jpg"/><br/> CPRowe Photography<br/><br/> <p><a href="http://fyeahmoderndance.tumblr.com/post/27710221003/cprowe-photography" class="tumblr_blog">fyeahmoderndance</a>:</p> <blockquote><div> <p>CPRowe Photography</p> </div></blockquote>http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/27722702918http://calamityrain.tumblr.com/post/27722702918Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:46:56 -0400