“Hey, Boss, I’m losing my way here. I think I need a reboot.”
Reimaged from Pixabay
©2015 Karina Pinella
Seeking Motivation
writing
The Dead Student by John Katzenbach (a book review)
This is a book about revenge and retribution with damaged characters trying to find ways to cope. The main character, Timothy “Moth” Warner is a PhD student and a recovering alcoholic whose sponsor is his uncle, Dr. Edward Warner, a psychiatrist. Warner, a veteran alcoholic himself who was nearly 7,000 days sober (more or less) is found dead. Cause of death is ruled a suicide, the final conclusion based on evidence. But Moth doesn’t believe it because he knows his uncle would never desert him; he was not suicidal and he had too much good in his life to live for. And so, the search for the truth begins . . . Continue reading
Still Life in Paris
Picture perfect fun,
Broad brushed by extreme hatred.
Still life in real life.
![Vincent van Gogh [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons ©2015 Karina Pinella](https://karinapinella.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/sad.jpg?w=234&h=300)
Vincent van Gogh [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
©2015 Karina Pinella
Chicken Sausage with Condensed Cream of Portabella Mushroom Soup & Vegetables over Pasta
You can make this dish with leftover chopped or shredded chicken, or chicken sausage (I used Trader Joe’s Chicken Sausage with Sundried Tomatoes). I used the latter because I didn’t have time to cook chicken and I had no leftovers.
After you’ve chopped about 3 cups of cooked chicken or 16 oz. of chicken sausage, peel, crush, and chop four cloves of garlic and set aside. Next, skin or peel, chop, and set aside the following: 1 onion, five carrots, a carton of white button mushrooms, and a bunch of fresh broccoli florets (or use a 10 oz. bag of frozen broccoli). Fill a pot with water to boil your pasta (I used a 16 oz. bag of whole wheat penne pasta). Follow the instructions that come with the pasta. Continue reading
The Emoji Book Tag
The ever playful and thoughtful Bookidote has tagged me for a moment of levity.
Rules: Relate your FOUR-FIVE most used or latest-used EMOJIs with your read books
I’m going to let the emoticons speak the thousand words for me about the books below. Continue reading
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter (a movie review)
This movie may be considered a fantasy/fairy tale set against a realistic and contemporary setting. The elements of fantasy/fairy tale apply more to the theme and the story rather than special effects or costume. In some ways, it is also absurdist and funny; just not the laugh out kind. It’s funny as in marvelously original and ridiculously funny. Continue reading
The Virgins
The crowd of bearded men brushed off the dirt from their clothes as they walked through a cloud a smoke. Continue reading
Paris 11/13/15
They stole in, black clad with hearts equally dark.
From different corners of the City of Love—transformed into another level
Of Dante’s vision of hell.
Mute soldiers of hate articulated by AK47s
Brainwashed with false promises of Eden
If they do what ISIS has bidden.
Man, woman, child,
Humanity dressed in full sorrow
Too painful to face tomorrow.
Friday night’s fallout
Will always be remembered as the day
The light went out.
Image: Pixabay/roegger
©2015 Karina Pinella
His Secret
He creeps downstairs, wincing every time he creaks a step. His flashlight shines toward the door leading to the garage. Almost there. He can hardly wait to be with his sweetness. His breath shortens at the thought of the taste and touch of —.
“Harry?”
He turns around to see his wife at the top of the stairs’ landing. He smooths his sparse hair, as he asks, “What are you doing up?” Continue reading
Apologies via Office Emails
(loosely based on actual events) Continue reading
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