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On February 24th I had surgery to remove my gall bladder. The weeks leading up to it were not the cheeriest. Not only did I have the surgery looming, but I had to stick to a ridiculously low-fat diet to … Continue reading →

Livia got some adorable tutus for Christmas. Of course she managed to get one of them terribly dirty almost immediately. The care label said that it needed to be hand-washed. Uh-oh! I don’t do hand-washing. “Well,” I said to my … Continue reading →

Quote by Louis L’Amour— The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

My husband walked into the mud room as I was putting towels into the washing machine. He said, “Oh, laundry day?” Where has he been living for the last 4.5 years that he doesn’t know that every day is laundry … Continue reading →

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, A (Kindle version) This is a well-written dystopian story about a boy named Matt who grows up on the estate of a drug lord in the fictional land of Opium, a country … Continue reading →

Last weekend was the weekend from Hell. Friday night around 11:00, I began experiencing stomach and back pain. Then came the vomiting. All night long, I retched periodically and was wretched constantly. There was no way to position my body … Continue reading →

Part of the reason I did so little posting in December is that I was having computer trouble. My poor, old computer had almost run out of memory. My hard drive was full, and I kept getting warnings from the … Continue reading →

I never know where my reading whimsy will take me. Earlier this year it took me to the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers. I give the character of Lord Peter Wimsey an A+, but I give the … Continue reading →