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This Is How We Make Love

This is how we make love: Sitting beside each other on the sofa Reading poetry...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

A wonderfully close imitation

I ran across this statement today in Patrick O'Brian's book H.M.S. Surprise (an Aubrey/Maturin novel)...

May 2013

May 05, 2013

Ultimately, Distracted

Can’t write with it. Can’t write without it. Naturally, I’m talking about the Internet. (I...

March 2013

March 12, 2013

Five Favorites: Part Deux

Joining up with some other ladies to exchange a diet of delights as we share...

December 2012

December 29, 2012

What’s Yours?

Everybody makes ‘em. Nobody keeps ‘em. Yeah. I’m talking about New Year’s resolutions. You have...

December 26, 2011

Date a Guy Who Reads

This post is a response to A Girl You Should Date Date a guy who...

September 2011

September 27, 2011

Bible Marathon

Image via CrunchBase A marathon, not a telethon, and you don’t read while you run...

July 2011

July 30, 2011

Stuff Catholics Like: Love Wins (Part 2)

This is the second part of a two part article/review of Rob Bell’s newest book,...

July 29, 2011

Stuff Catholics Like: Love Wins (Part I)

If you haven’t already figured it out by some of my earlier blog entries, I’m...

June 2011

June 05, 2011

Getting Organized!

Image via Wikipedia, of something no one should have to do: sift cinders! Ever feel...

March 2011

March 08, 2011

Stuff Catholics Like: Sunday Mass

Lately, I've been amused by a blog called Stuff Christians Like, (now a book,...

November 2009

November 27, 2009

Library Overload

Image by eclecticlibrarian via Flickr The book situation in the apartment has finally reached critical...

September 2009

September 03, 2009

One of my favorite ways to spend the day

With books! Today from 11:30 this morning until about 3:30 this afternoon, I was at...

August 2009

August 12, 2009

Deliciously Wicked

I remember reading Wicked (Gregory Maguire, Regan Books, 1995) when it first came out and...

August 08, 2009

My life has never been the same

Wow, what can I say? Twenty-four years ago tomorrow at 9:20 p.m. was the...

August 06, 2009

Big housecleaning day

It's now almost 1:30 p.m., and it's time to begin the big housecleaning push. I've...

August 04, 2009

A Sense of the World

Busily trying to finish this book. A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man...

July 2009

July 29, 2009

This is a great joke!

I nabbed this yesterday at Paws and Claws when I was in for the volunteer

June 2009

June 21, 2009

Goodness Gracious!

Okay, it's been like forever since I've written. Now that we have a high-speed internet...

July 2008

July 31, 2008

What I’m reading . . .

I finished (yesterday morning) A Week in October by Elizabeth Subercaseaux. (ISBN-13: 978-1-59051-288-3, Other Press...

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