A couple of years ago, when I started hearing a lot of buzz about The Omnivore’s Dilemma, I picked up a copy at the library. And then I flipped through it, saw that the print was a wee bit small and that it had over four hundred pages and returned it to the library unread. Yes, I am a true…
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Eight Months
Dear Ella, I think now that you are eight months old, it is safe to declare you a blue-eyed baby. Your Grancie thought you were going to go dark like me and three of my four siblings, but you’ve held on. Your dad’s recessive genes really came through for you, although your eyes are darker than his are. Remember how…
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The Girl Who Was On Fire edited by Leah Wilson
The Girl who was on Fire is not my normal kind of read. But this book was so fantastically terrific. If you’re a Hunger Games fan, this is worth a read. Look, I am not the kind of person who wants to read endlessly about books I like (well, okay, I love reading blog posts about books I like, but…
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Restart
For the last many weeks, Bart has been in the midst of busy season at work, which meant he worked pretty much around the clock for weeks on end. Then, on Tuesday afternoon, he called to say it was all done and he was on his way home. And he didn’t go back to work until this morning. Having him…
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Reliving One of the Best Meals of My Life
A long time ago, in a house only a few blocks away from my current apartment, I wrote a book review and someone asked if I’d been paid to write it (it was a book quite outside the normal teen romance scope of my reading). I had not, but the book was non-fiction and so my review was more outline-y…
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