Summer Reading Lined Up (but only 2 weeks worth…)

Ho!  I should have suspected that he wasn’t really quite dead yet.  Richard Bachman stills manages to speak from beyond the grave…and Harry, of course, even if I have to pry you loose from my dear daughter’s hands, I will have you read.  Yes, I will.

Friday Afternoon Therapy Session

            Paul was doubled over puffing heavily out of both his nose and mouth.
            “You are not in the active stage of labour, Paul,” Dr.Gonsalez replied with her normal low-key, matter-of-fact voice.  “I think you are afraid of discussing your mother and are regressing.”
            Paul only huffed like a s choo-choo train, his eyes bulging, [...]

Malawi or Bust

So, I’ve been invited to go help out build staff housing in central Malawi for an AIDS hospital there in conjunction with Lifeline Malawi (see side widget).  The whole ‘going to Africa’ thing hasn’t really set in too much yet until the day before yesterday when the Hubster and I got our first round of [...]

Neat-o Birthday Stuff

Your Birthdate: February 10

Independent and dominant, you tend to be the alpha dog in most situations.
You’re very confident, and hardly anything ever shakes you.
Mundane tasks tend to drain you – you prefer to be making great plans.
You are quite original. When people don’t “get” you, it bothers you a lot.
Your strength: Your ability [...]

Rude Customers, Gotta Love ‘Em

I was talking with Handsome Mark, the LP Officer, as he was on his way out the door leaving for Edmonton and some dangerous undercover LP business there, I’m sure, when along barges a lady like a tornado?  No. More like a hurricane?  No. I would say more like a barge, or at least an [...]

#126

If others want to shower you with sympathy for something you didn’t find that difficult, let them.  They feel better, and you get treated royally for the moment.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See (Spoilers Ahead)

I wonder if the author began this story with high aspirations of telling the stories, or having 4 major characters and then realizing that keeping too many story-lines goings, especially with all the girls getting married, would be impossible.  Or if she had planned that possibly she would show the devastation that foot binding had [...]

The American Scholar – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men: be Man thinking.
Women: sure, why not? Think too.
Trees:  be natural.
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Nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson

All of nature so,
so…what’s the word? Poetic?
Big?  Ah.  Natural.
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#122

Being fully prepared can make even the most difficult tasks seem…well, less difficult.