It has been over a year since I last posted a Friday link round-up, but since I am attempting to do NaBloPoMo this week (you read that right–I’m taking this month one week at a time), it seemed like a good excuse to resurrect it! “NaBloPoMo is your experience. It’s your 30-day posting process, and you can use the space on your blog in any way you choose: You can access daily prompts through BlogHer. You can post a […]
WHAT I WANTED TO BE GROWING UP, CHRONOLOGICALLY “Teacher” and “nurse” were how most girls my age answered the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” back when we were growing up. I never said either. “Accountant” was where I ended up. It was never on the list at all. “Wife” and “mother” were nearly always assumed to be on the list, but for me–already a burgeoning 1970s second-wave feminist in […]
We adopted Winchester a year ago this month! As a variation on Wordless Wednesday each week this November, I’ll be posting a photo of him captioned with my suspicions of what he’s thinking. Winchester gets bored when Paul and I stop to chat with neighbors while we’re out with him, especially if the neighbors don’t have a dog of their own. Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and […]
Disclosure: I was offered a free seven-day premium membership to Playster in order to get to know the service. Some information included in this post is available in Playster’s press kit. This is a compensated review. Compensation does not influence my opinion. I was recently invited to check out Playster, a new service that provides a single source for every kind of online entertainment: movies, music, games, and books (e-books and audiobooks). In its own […]
WARNING: The following may contain potential spoilers for the novel and film The Martian, depending on your definition of “spoilers.” —————————————————————————————————————- I haven’t talked about movies on the blog in quite a while. That’s because most of the movies I’ve seen this year have been enjoyable but not terribly significant, while the one that did knock me off my feet in nearly every way-–Mad Max: Fury Road–-also left me pretty much speechless and unsure of […]
When she sent me the text, she really didn’t think I’d take her up on it. My sister Teresa is the librarian at the elementary school both of my nephews attended. School started in mid-August, but the library didn’t open for the students right away. She’s been getting it ready for them to start using it this Tuesday, and one of the last tasks she had left was to prepare nearly 100 donated books for […]
Images via Pixabay, edited and mixed with Enlight If you haven’t heard me gripe about my daily commute–two hours round-trip on a good day–you’re new around here, and/or you don’t know I live and work in the Greater Los Angeles area. Sad to say, commutes like mine are not uncommon here. My commute is what made me an audiobook reader. But I like breaks between my books (and occasionally, during them), and that’s when I […]
This short survey asks about reading habits–not what you read, but where, when, and how you read it. I lifted the questions from a recent post on Suey’s blog. 1. Do you have a certain place at home for reading? Never good to begin with, my middle-aged eyes seriously need a well-lit place for reading, and my house has three of them. My favorite is my old green armchair in our second-story loft. It has a […]
I’m working on writing up my thoughts about three or four books right now, but none of them are ready to post, so it seems like a good time to share a few links I’ve liked–and learned from–recently. For years, I struggled with the fear that admitting I didn’t know things would make people think I wasn’t all that smart. It’s been a long, tough struggle to understand that “knowledge” is a different thing from […]
Here’s a little wordplay for your Tuesday, courtesy of my uncle who still emails me stuff like this every now and then. He knows I love bad puns–not that there’s any other kind. If you share my feelings about them, I hope you enjoy these! Judge Winchester of the Word Police I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can’t put it down. I did a theatrical performance about puns.It was a play on words. […]
It’s the first day of summer! It’s Father’s Day! And it’s a great weekend to do this thing: I spent some time flash-reading yesterday afternoon, finishing one of my books-in-progress and making some headway on another. Today really should be a review-a-thon for me–I can’t join the one next weekend, because I’ll be away, and I’m a good three or four reviews behind right now–but I think I might rather just do more reading. I […]
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