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Dec.24.2008
Gentle Readers, I want to wish you the merriest of holidays. I'm going to try and cover everything with some links to my fave holiday stories and songs.I'll see you next week.
The Driedel Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xSlCXgfcRw
The Monkees singing Riu Chiu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Dec.18.2008
I'm tired of this cold weather. It's lost its charm. Yes, I am a California girl, but I'm really tired of it. Yesterday my mother tried to open the car door and it was frozen shut. I am not making this up. Frozen shut. She had to get my cousin in law Matti to help her open it. We're not used to...
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Dec.17.2008
I'm on a definite reading spree; since I'm moving soon I want to read as much as possible before I have to get busy. I read Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb which I loved (although Mr. Lamb, I'm mad you killed off a character from one of our previous books) Tis The Season! by Lorna Landvik,...
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Dec.10.2008
In Jane Fonda's memoir, she had a mantra: Make it Better. She would say it over and over in her life, thinking she could make everything better: she could make her father Henry Fonda love her, she could help her mother feel less depressed, she could be a better actress, wife and mother. She could...
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Dec.08.2008
Twenty-eight years ago today, my mother and I were in her room watching TV. My grandfather was in the living room, watching Monday Night Football. Granddad stopped by Mom's room and said: "One of the Beatles was shot.""What?" Mom said, looking up from the TV.
"They're...
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Dec.03.2008
I keep on getting e-mails saying that today for the publishing industry it's Black Wedneday. People are getting laid off, imprints are folding, and some publishers are not taking any more manuscripts, period. End of report. Which is a bit scary for a aspiring novelist/essayist like moi.
Then there...
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Dec.02.2008
Well Gentle Readers, I have a confession for you. There's a reason why I haven't written here the past couple of days. Oh, it's other things of course: I had a lovely Thanksgiving with my parents, then another dinner with my cousin, my aunt and my nephew Friday afternoon. I saw the new James Bond...
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Nov.26.2008
Every year Sarah Dessen lists what she is grateful for on her birthday, and she has items that correspond with her age. So I'm stealing a page from her book and listing thirty-six things I am thankful for this year on Thanksgiving Eve. In no particular order, here we go:
1. My parents are in good...
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Nov.25.2008
I watched Rachel Maddow's show last week and she was talking to Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point. She asked him about the recent appointees to President Elect Obama's cabinet, many of them holdovers from the Clinton era. He said no, this might be a good thing. In order to be a...
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Nov.24.2008
In fifth grade our class was bestowed a gift: new desks. I was in Catholic School at the time. We found out about the new desks the first day of school, when we walked in and saw that our old creaky desks were replaced by sleek cubby style desks. No more squeaking desks when it was time to get new...
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Nov.24.2008
The things I've done are bolded.
1. Started your own blog2. Slept under the stars3. Played in a band4. Visited Hawaii5. Watched a meteor shower6. Given more than you can afford to charity7. Been to Disneyland8. Climbed a mountain9. Held a praying mantis10. Sang a solo11. Bungee jumped12. Visited...
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Nov.22.2008
for John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
I Have a Rendezvous with Death
I have a rendezvous with DeathAt some disputed barricade,When Spring comes back with rustling shadeAnd apple-blossoms fill the air-I have a rendezvous with DeathWhen Spring brings back blue days and fair.
It may be...
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Nov.19.2008
Gentle Readers, a new family’s moving into the White House. Yes, we all know about President Elect Obama, Michelle and the two girls. However, another person is moving in as well. Who is it? Marian Robinson, Michelle’s mother, Marian Robinson. That’s right; a mother-in-law will be living in the...
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Nov.18.2008
I was six when the suicides at Jonestown happened. I don’t remember the coverage at all. It was 1978 and it was before CNN, MSNBC, before everyone had the information super highway readily available. We had thirteen channels on my grandfather’s television set, the set he bought in the sixties. My...
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Nov.17.2008
In case you missed the title of the blog, how is my Nanowrimo novel coming?
Blah.
It started off so well. I've been doing essays for six months now so writing fiction at first was just fun. No navel gazing, no admitting how I screwed up one day. Just write! Make stuff up! It's fun!
Then I got...
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About Jennifer
Jennifer Gibbons lives in Lafayette, California. She is the grand prize winner of the Red Room Housewarming contest and one of the winners of the Summer Reading Experience Contest. She is working on a young adult novel and a book of essays.
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Causes Jennifer Gibbons Supports
Gilda's Club, Greenpeace, Rosie's Broadway Kids,Westwind Foster Family Agency, Amber Brown Fund, Linda Duncan Fund for Contra Costa Libraries
Jennifer’s Favorite Books
p>To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
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