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Finishing Up 2013: Part II
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
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Weekend Woe
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
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New Year, New Computer
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
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As My Whimsy Took Me
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
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A Walk and a Word
I had my annual physical on Friday. My doctor asked me if I got a lot of exercise, and I said that I did at this time of year. I told her that if there’s snow in the air or … Continue reading
The Terrible Finger Incident
Dear Livia, I should tell you about the terrible finger incident that happened earlier this year. It was a Friday afternoon in June. We were getting ready for Marshall’s fourth birthday party when we heard you scream. We went to … Continue reading
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The Woods in Late Summer: Part II
Signs of fall weren’t the only things I found on my late-summer walks. I also found Indian pipe growing in several spots. I think of it as being relatively rare, so it was a pleasant surprise to find so much … Continue reading
The Woods in Late Summer: Part I
I usually don’t go out in the woods during the summer, because it’s unpleasantly hot and I worry about ticks. I went up to the woods three times in the late summer this year, and almost regretted it. As expected, … Continue reading
SITY: Mystery Eggs
My husband discovered one September day that the flower stalks of the astilbe that he had recently bought were covered with some sort of eggs. The eggs had just started to hatch, in fact. From a distance they just looked … Continue reading