An Exaltation of Creativity and Bliss

"Entering the Circle" by Dr. Olga Kharitidi

Capsule Book Review

Jun 6, 2012

"Eighty mentally sick men lived in warm rooms dimly lit with blue ceiling lights. They all wore identical, soiled, gray, uniform-style pajamas with vertical black stripes."

Bulgogi Bliss: A Capsule Review of the Korea House Restaurant in Portland, Maine

Korea House
630 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 771-2000

by Peter Falkenberg Brown
May 5, 2012

I love bulgogi. For the uninitiated, bulgogi is a Korean dish consisting of thin strips of beef marinated in a spicy sauce, served with white rice, kimchee and assorted side vegetables.

Maps to Ecstasy by Gabrielle Roth

teachings of an urban shaman

Mar 24, 2012

"Imagination is the force that pulls your physical, emotional and mental energies into dynamic harmony, giving wings to your soul..."

Knoxville 1915

Excerpt from “Knoxville: Summer of 1915”— from James Agee’s essay "Knoxville" and the introduction to his Pulitzer Prize-winning posthumous novel, A Death in the Family

Mar 23, 2012

"On the rough wet grass of the back yard my father and mother have spread quilts. We all lie there, my mother, my father, my uncle, my aunt, and I too am lying there..."

Contact Management with SQL Power: A Review of SQLite Maestro

by Peter Falkenberg Brown
Feb 20, 2012

SQL searching is one reason why I wanted to find a more powerful contact manager. SQL searching is useful when you want to visually examine a set of rows based on simple or complex criteria, but it’s also very, very useful for reports.

Crossing to Avalon by Jean Shinoda Bolen

Feb 10, 2012

“We need time out of our everyday, outer-directed lives, and not just at major life transitions, when it is most advisable, but regularly. I think metaphorically of how necessary it is that we have “diastolic” time...

Whistle Down the Wind

Jan 9, 2012

I love the depiction of daily life in this movie too. The homely scenes at tea, with the family seated around the table eating slices of homemade bread from china plates and drinking their tea from china cups...

ConvertXtoDVD, a Film, and a FedEx Receipt

~ a capsule review of the ConvertXtoDVD v4 Authoring Program ~

by Peter Falkenberg Brown
Jan 8, 2012

On December 29th, 2011, at 4:15pm Eastern Standard Time, in the city of Portland, Maine, I looked at a FedEx receipt that I had just been handed, and couldn’t decide whether I wanted to jump up and down in the Kinko’s store, or go immediately to bed.

Two Great Ways to Back up Your Data and Save Your Bacon

~ with Macrium Reflect & Microsoft's Robocopy ~

by Peter Falkenberg Brown
Jan 7, 2012

Have you backed up your data recently? No? Aha! :-). You're not alone, unfortunately. But... don't you want to join the ranks of the Fortunate Few who DO back up their data? Here are two very quick ways to do just that.