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  • Pedometer geek and books, books, and more books..

    July 3, 2009

    • Fearing that I wouldn't have any more library books to read, I stopped at the library on the way home from our daily walk to the post office.  Weather permitting, my husband and I usually walk to the post office and other various places around town.  It makes the pedometer geek in me happy for one thing.  I know that I will finish up Love in the Present Tense today;  it is a compelling story ...
  • Something old, something new, something borrowed....books, that is

    June 16, 2009

    • Having returned David Baldacci's latest book to the library, I, as might be expected, borrowed a few more books to read.  I am hoping to be able to read at least six (library) books this summer. (Our public library is doing a summer reading program for adults and that's the goal.)This week's reads include one of the Saxon mysteries of Les Roberts (the something old...in this case, it is The ...
  • Burgess Meredith & Me

    October 2, 2008

    •                 Every time I go to the library, I think about Burgess Meredith. Readers of a certain age will remember the Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last. The childhood fantasy of being locked in a library for the weekend has never left me. Neither has the post-apocalypse image of a bereft and furious Meredith sitting on the library floor, piles of books surrounding ...
  • Another Monday Whacks Me Upside the Head.

    September 22, 2008

    • KidThree's church has a lot of different activities for the members; last night we attended one, a monthly koffee klatch at a local coffee shop.  KidThree had met a girl at the earlier service and they made plans to meet later at this coffee shop 'meet and greet,' so we went.  It was so nice to be with such friendly people.  FriendJ, who had originally invited us to the church, arrived with ...