If you read Ralphie’s blog, you might not know she makes the best caramel popcorn I’ve ever tasted, or that her girls rush to the door when we come over or that we have gone to her house for the past few weeks, pulled all the cushions off the couch and watched So You Think You Can Dance on the…
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Money, Money, Money
If you’ve been reading for a while, you know that, after books, one of my all-time favorite topics is money. The other day, I was reading a book that said married couples should absolutely have separate bank accounts. I have a friend who does that – one of them pays the mortgage, one pays for the vacation house they own….
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Service Readership
So this weekend is the drive from Austin to Boston. Three days. Two thousand miles. Are you jealous yet? Bart will be driving the whole way, since I am not old enough to drive a moving van (and I’m obviously very very sad about that . . . ). We’ve got four or five books on CD to listen to…
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Private
This week, Kayla set her baby blog to private and then, last night, my sister-in-law, at the urging of her husband, made her family blog private as well. (Also, I told Kayla a few minutes ago that I was writing a post about private blogs and she said, “Condemning us?” and I assured her I was not. Much as I’m…
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Banker by Dick Francis
9 of 10: Banker by Dick Francis is a great read – likable characters, interesting setting, and a fast-moving plot. I could not put this book down after the first 50 pages. About 15 years ago, when we were visiting my grandparents, my grandma told me how much she loved Dick Francis’ books, especially To the Hilt. I started reading…
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