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I don’t know much about Jessica Simpson, I admit. However I have picked up, by osmosis probably since I don’t own a television, that she is an actress of some sort; previously the star of a reality program and not […]
This sort of follows the theme of my last blog. I’ve been thinking a lot of the power of the subconscious mind and in particular dreams and that short interval between waking and sleeping which is often a time when […]
In my present home we have no attic (just a hot and dirty crawl space under the roof) and only half a basement which is wet or flooded most of the year. The house sits on a massive slab of […]
I hesitate to write this blog because I am a superstitious being and at this moment things are going really well. I wake in the morning with a smile on my face, ready and eager to sit down at the […]
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Here’s a link to an article from British newspaper, The Sunday Telegraph, regarding the proposal made by most of the large publishers to begin banding children’s books with age-appropriate tags, and what author Philip Pullman has to say about it. […]
It’s mizzling here- a fine, misty drizzling rain. There were lots of dead frogs on the road, slipped from their skins like green grapes popping. And a smell below the sodden earth like dirty dish water. One dead chipmunk, its […]
I remember when my sister and I were young pre-teens and we’d hang out every day after school and all day in the summer with a bunch of kids who lived on our steep little street (one block long with […]
The other day my 5-year old brought home his book wish list from school. They’re having a book fair (probably a Scholastic thing) with an assortment of fiction and non-fiction, picture books and chapter books. I’ve seen the sort of […]
On our walk up the mountain today (me and the Lucy Factor), a big black bear crossed our path. I, of course, did absolutely the wrong thing which was to back away with my heart in my mouth and the […]