Scott C. Holstad's Blog

• My Favorite Bookstore

  November 6, 2009

  • My favorite bookstore.  Gosh, where to start?  I guess I’ll start at the top (my top, at least).I grew up admiring the Beats.  I seriously dug Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs and the others, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti especially spoke to me.  Thus, as an avid reader, I read about Ferlinghetti opening his own bookstore in San Francisco a number of decades ago.  It was called City Lights.  City ...
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• My Wife's Illness

  October 6, 2009

  • I last wrote about my wife, Jennifer, and I celebrating our sixth anniversary in Asheville, NC.  That was close to a month ago.  I ended the blog post about my wife getting a giant migraine, thus ending the fun times on a difficult note.  Well, read on.My wife got worse, if that's possible.  Her headache pain was on a scale of 10/10.  She developed nausea and threw up regularly.  Her joints ...
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• Our Anniversary Weekend

  September 8, 2009

  • This past weekend, Jennifer and I celebrated our sixth anniversary together! I had decided some time ago to take her to Asheville NC for the long weekend, as we'd never been there, and we'd heard it was funky and nice. So, off we went. I made numerous pre-arrangements, and the first (and perhaps the best) was that we stayed at a lovely (and incredibly expensive!) B&B called the 1889 WhiteGate ...
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