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Jul.03.2012
What does the Fourth of July evoke for you? Is it family picnics barbequing hamburgers and hotdogs and eating fruit and macaroni salad? Is it sitting in the cool grass on a warm night, neck craned watching colorful displays of fireworks? Or maybe you think of the flag raised and proudly...
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Jul.02.2012
photo: Farmer's Wife in Clogs, 1892 by Louis Roy, from 1st-art-gallery.com
Check out this website, 1892farmwife.blogspot.com. As the link suggests, it's a diary of a Maine farmer's wife in 1892. Doesn't sound interesting? Well, I thought so, too, but since I was doing...
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Jun.29.2012
You can call in sick to the office, sit around on your fat ass all morning with a coffee in your hand, or spend the evening nursing a vodka tonic; you can vegetate all day or spend the afternoon tending the vegetable garden; or you can stay up all night, then sleep till sunset, but no matter...
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Jun.21.2012
photo: book cover, from its Wikipedia site
"1922," the first one, was very good, far outshining the other three stories here, but slightly disappointing in the final paragraphs, which felt comicbook-like. The writing is King's best in a long time, even if the theme and unreliable...
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Jun.18.2012
Richard Nash, publishing savant, on how to get love from independents and the future of the book business with The Book Doctors on Huffington Post http://huff.to/L9iaLh
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Jun.11.2012
photo: First edition cover, from its Wikipedia page
So this is the first adult book I ever read, when I was 7. Which possibly explains a lot. When I finished reading this, I thought, "I can do this! I can do BETTER than this." (See my profile for more on this.)...
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Jun.08.2012
I've observed that I'm almost obsessive compulsive. I enjoy routine and structure and I like being the one that evolves the structure. Let others follow my lead. Being on vacation, then, acquiscing to others' fun-time agendas, is difficult. Especially when it involves a lot of shopping and staring...
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Jun.05.2012
Since leaving a major daily newspaper in 2009 (through a voluntary buyout), it's been a long,arduous journey to reinvent myself and navigate the choppy waters of this new landscape we call journalism. It's been a fun adventure at times, and it's also been a little scary. Uncertainty is not an easy...
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Jun.01.2012
http://bit.ly/KRwiVG
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