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Sep.19.2011
One of my first exposures, if not the first, to some works of great literature came from playing the card game, Authors, with friends in the neighborhood. The girls across the street owned the game, and we often played it hour after hour on their breezeway in the summer. For those who...
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Sep.17.2011
...over and over." So go the lyrics to one of Tommy James and the Shondells hit songs. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts did a re-make of it, too. One of the things about music is that lyrics tend to stay with us long after the original tune has faded from popularity. Moreover,...
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Sep.14.2011
Before Twilight, before even the Harry Potter series (who had the character Sanguini..great name for a vampire, by the way), but well after, Bram Stoker's Dracula, there was the dark soap opera, Dark Shadows, with the vampire Barnabas Collins and the werewolf Quentin Collins and all manner of...
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Sep.13.2011
Perhaps it is just me, but I tend to notice connections between the books I read. First off, generally I am reading several books at a time. I never read just one; I often have one or two books on both levels of my home. Right now, I am reading three books. Perhaps that's why I...
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Sep.07.2011
New Year's resolutions come...and (mostly) they go, but I have chosen resolutions that I am continuing to keep since my resolutions fit into two categories. The first is concerning reading. That is, to read more books this year than last year! The second is concerning the tracking...
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Aug.31.2011
Recently I have been experiencing what I would call is a "war of words", but that really doesn't describe it very well. As I have mentioned many times, I am a bookcrosser and spend time on bookcrossing.com and sending (as well as receiving) books all around the world to fellow bookcrossers....
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Aug.27.2011
As part of our landscaping project, we decided to plant some wildflower seeds. We didn't know quite what to expect at the time. The photo on the package showed sunflowers, black-eyed Susans, cone flowers, lupine, and a few others I've yet to identify.
For a while, nothing...
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Aug.24.2011
Recently, Charlotte Degregorio sent an email to the members of the HSA (at least some, if not all) about the subject: Why do you write haiku? She wanted people to respond with their own reasons for writing haiku, and they did. She wanted to post answers on her blog, and she did. ...
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Aug.21.2011
I don't know if simple pleasures are truly simple pleasures if there is technology involved. I always think of simple pleasures as low tech; however, having said that, I have recently (with my older son's help) downloaded Nintendo's Dr. Mario for my Wii.
I suppose I should explain Dr. Mario...
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Aug.09.2011
My New Year's resolutions included reading more books than last year and trying to meet my goal of reaching 10,000 steps per day as I am not only a reader, but a pedometer geek. July wasn't a great month for reading although I did manage to read six books bringing my total for the year to forty-...
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Jul.29.2011
This week is a week of beginnings, middles, and endings in our family. My niece had her baby on the twenty-fifth. Her parents' anniversary, their thirtieth, was also the twenty-fifth. So the birth of Pierson BRADY was a welcome present. (Brady is my maiden name and thus, it is my belief that it...
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Jul.19.2011
As July moves into its conclusion (okay, it's kinda midway but so many things are going on right now at the month's end that it seems like it is) I have not written my small stones as I had planned (that is, posting them daily). I will post them in total when finished.
However, in my newest SIY (...
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Jul.15.2011
..because the last movie of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, is out! It was actually out as of 12:01am July 15th. My husband and this Harry Potter geek went to see it at the 1:00am showing (the other times it was being shown...12:01am, 12:20am, 12:45am were already sold...
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Jul.12.2011
The lazy days of summer must be upon us, or at least, upon me. It seems like it was just June, and now as I look at the calendar I see that it is nearly midway July. My New Year's resolutions to read more books is still intact, for now at least. My resolution to make 10K on my pedometer and stay...
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Jul.08.2011
Patriotism is great as long as we realize that there are patriots to be found everywhere, no matter the country. As C.S. Lewis said, (and I am paraphrasing here), patriotism is realizing that another country's citizen may have as much love for his country as we do for ours. For example, that...
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About Nancy
A pharmacist by profession, a haiku poet by nature, I read and write. I have a book of haiku, Ohayo haiku, am working on another somewhat alternative haiku book, but write other genres. I also read...lots of novels! My favorite is, and...
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