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Look at It Go

Posted on 10/24/2021 by chick

The job of all the senses is to pick up clues from the outside world in various forms: lightwaves, changes in air pressure, chemical signals. That information is translated into millions of tiny electrical pulses. Your brain reads these electrical … Continue reading →

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Out of Season

Posted on 10/23/2021 by chick

It is fall, and most of the local plants are behaving accordingly, but not all. Is there any significance to there being so many plants blooming or fruiting at an odd time? I don’t know. I have often seen common … Continue reading →

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Not Birds of a Feather

Posted on 10/22/2021 by chick

I took a walk in the woods yesterday. Up at the Scenic Overlook, there was a strange sound, raspy, like something being scraped over and over again. I wanted know what it was, so I crept closer, expecting to find … Continue reading →

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How I Met My Book: Part III

Posted on 10/21/2021 by chick

In previous installments of How I Met My Book, I talked about hand-me-down books and unexpected loaners. For this installment I want to tell you about my copy of The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot. I’ve bought … Continue reading →

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Shopping Expedition

Posted on 10/20/2021 by chick

My husband and I took the kids shoe-shopping yesterday. The guy manning the register almost certainly had a cold. He was sniffing and coughing, and his mask was hanging under his nose. I was not pleased, but what could I … Continue reading →

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Reading Report: Mid-October 2021

Posted on 10/17/2021 by chick

I recently finished The Books of Beginning series by John Stephens. The series centers on three children who are prophesied to find and master three books of powerful magic, and each book of the series is named after one of … Continue reading →

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Random Things Today

Posted on 10/15/2021 by chick

Livia’s ordinary cold was enough to kick my ass. Good thing it wasn’t Covid. Yesterday was a screen-free day, so I read my book instead of watching TV. On the bright side, I finished the book and I really enjoyed … Continue reading →

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The Weekend Past

Posted on 10/12/2021 by chick

It wasn’t the best weekend. I pulled my back on Saturday and spent most of the weekend in bed from that plus the cold that I caught from Livia. I had to cancel my Saturday plans because of the cold. … Continue reading →

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Grateful

Posted on 10/01/2021 by chick

Last weekend felt very long, but not in a good way, because we were waiting on the results from some medical tests. One was a Covid test for my husband, who had caught a cold. The other was a series … Continue reading →

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Reading Report: Late September

Posted on 09/30/2021 by chick

The Broken Hours: A Novel of H.P. Lovecraft by Jacqueline Baker, B+: Arthor Crandle is down-on-his-luck, homeless, and looking for work. He manages to find a job as an assistant to a mysterious and reclusive author in Providence, Rhode Island. … Continue reading →

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