How did that happen? Where did the weekend go? I didn’t do enough to have it be gone already. Also? I have to work FIVE DAYS IN A ROW this week, and that’s just crappy.
Tonight, however, is the State of the Union. Which I always watch. With alcohol. [...]
Madeline L’Engle (1918 - 2007)
A favorite, both as a child and an adult. Meg & Charles Wallace (and Calvin, Sandy & Dennys) will always be an important part of my life….I read through every book I could find by her in the bookmobile, and later the library. She has always been an [...]
Finished.
And except for the last half-dozen pages or so, it was as good as I’d hoped.
Did you hear about this? The bookstore owner in Kansas City who couldn’t give away his excess inventory started burning books in protest. BUT! You can save a book (or 20).
I’m not saying I made a purchase or anything (I totally did), but the Prospero Bookstore homepage has these (completely & money-spending [...]
Someone on my LJ friend list posted a list of the books she’d read in 2006. I thought that sounded fun, so I was going to do the same. However, this is going to be a partial list only, because I can’t remember everything I read.
1. The Bird Woman - Kerry Hardie
2. Lucky - Alice [...]
I took this from the bottom of a forward I received from my friend Brad:
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, totally worn out and screaming, “WOO-HOO! [...]
Although I am now (for those of you keeping track) 98% done with my holiday shopping, and have only three more packages to send. None of which will get where they need to be by the time they need to be there. I did get the all-important birthday gift sent out, and it [...]
