The library at which I spend my working days has invited adults to join a Summer Reading Club - much like those for the kiddies. I've always loved the excitement when the young readers get their reading records and start bringing them in to trade for prizes, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I was just as excited to hear that we "adults" would have a reading club of our own this summer. (And, no, I'm not eligible for prizes, which is A-okay by me.) Adults are welcome to fill out short reviews for the books read for...
On Saturday, June 5, my sister and I will be joining hundreds of other women - and men - to Walk for the Cure for breast cancer. I walk for my grandmother Constance. I walk for my aunt Patty. I walk for my friend Terese. I walk with love and respect and support for these three beautiful women, and for women across the world who have fought breast cancer, as well as in remembrance of those whose battles were not won. I am asking that you join me in honoring these fighters in our goal to find a cure for breast cancer...
Bonjour de Bordeaux. Approximately 24 hours after arriving, I've rid myself of jetlag, been fed three delicious meals, taken a lovely stroll through the city, and, last but certainly most importantly, spent a wonderful day - the first of many - with my sis. Travel was without issue, and my three flights, through Detroit (hooray! favorite US airport!) and Amsterdam (hooray! new favorite international airport!) were fast and comfortable. Food on international KLM flight was delicious - although the flight attendant...
I've never been much good at New Year's Resolutions, because they've always seemed so arbitrarily oppressive to me. This year I'm no different, and making no resolutions. Rather, I'm making this a New Year's Revolution, and making promises to myself, as well as others. I'm good at keeping promises, and these all involve things that I plan to do but never seem to get around to following through to the finish. I know myself well enough to know that if I make these promises to other people, I will carry them out. Strange...
Today, I will be spending at least 15 hours in a Madison cultural, religious and historical sanctuary protecting and providing access to what I believe to be one of our most important sanctuaries: the right to express our beliefs and freedoms in the ways we best see fit to move our citizenry forward. Only something that is as full of possibility and hope and as expressive of our power as individuals and as a community as exercising our Democratic voting rights can drag my sleepy ass out of bed at 5 a.m. I will be...
When it starts to rain, my sense of time gets short circuited. I have no concept of how long things will take, and am rendered completely incapable of estimating distances properly. This means, of course, that I left home very early yesterday morning, walking out into a downpour, to travel the three blocks to my bus stop. It seems that I think, somewhere deep in my subconscious, that I'll be dilly dallying my way through the rain, or perhaps be slogging through knee-deep water and have to plan accordingly. And, when...
Today we celebrate my very favorite holiday of them all. Every single celebratory year my July Fourth plans have always been the same: put on some loud rock and roll, cook up an outdoor feast, spend the night with family and friends watching breathtaking explosions in the sky above our neighborhood, and thank our brilliant and daring progenitors for all of the Liberties that we take so much for granted. What a wonderful idea, a wonderful place, and a wonderful community that is integrally dedicated to the concept...
Jake Jameson has trouble finding himself, trouble locating himself in moments and places. The retired architect stutter-steps through his days, not knowing how he got from the top of the stairs to the bottom, or what point he's been arguing so forcefully. But, "in amongst a sea of events and names that have been forgotten, there are a number of episodes that float with striking buoyancy to the surface." These episodes are the stories around which Samantha Harvey's "The Wilderness" (WorldCat, Amazon.com) is built...
From the time that we are very young, magical stories of princesses and fairies, princes and talking animals are told to us, over and over. Fairy tales teach us of the dangers of straying from the path, of judging a man by his fur and not his heart, and of forgetting one's manners and stealing from a witch. Breaking from rote tellings of these tales requires creative thinking on the part of both the author and the reader; author is charged with re-situating well-known characters and actions in a new manner, and reader...
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