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  • 84 books this year

    Yes, I read 84 books. I go on a fiscal year, Nov 1-Nov 1. Following are highlights.Mom asked me to order some specific books on Paperbackswap for her, and some accidentally got sent to my house. I put down everything …

  • We took the ladies on vacation for a week to Disney World in Florida and came back with a ton of dirty laundry. We managed to run into someone who lives just up the road from us, and the entire population of Ohio. It w…

  • Team Meeting

    A friend of mine has been asked to teach a parenting class, focusing on discipline, to our local homeless shelter. Tonight I was reminded of my biggest triumph as a parent.We were at my grandmother's house, she was 90.…

  • It is about time I wrote something

    Well, it has been quite a long time between blogs for me here. Tonight I actually went on a date with GD. We had Mongolian grill then watched Valkyrie. (We never go to the mall theater, except for tonight. The prices…

  • 71. Down from 118 one year ago.

    October has been a busy month for me. Two years ago, I started keeping a journal of all the books I read, starting on my birthday in early November. Last year totaled 118 (but it included several children’s books, like…

  • Angus and Natalie

    Want to hear something really strange? I am in the middle of two books, and they both have main characters named Natalie and Angus. Seriously. The book on CD is called Daddy's Little Girl. I am on vacation, and I fin…

  • Freakonomics

    I managed to make it to the library alone yesterday. I was so hungry for books, I found five for myself in about as many minutes. I have a huge master list of books to read, and all of them were on it. I spent some ti…

  • Gasp! reading banned books

    I belonged to a book club last year which kind of disbanded over the summer. In order to resume this fall, as soon as possible, I emailed the list of the 100 most banned books between 1990 and 2000 and suggested that we …

  • My Reading Habit

    I went to the Dr. today and found out that the baby is a boy. After four pregnancies, I finally found out. It was pretty darn obvious, although I did confirm my suspicions with the ultrasound lady, "Is that what I thin…

  • Reading to children

    Before I was even married, I read to my step-kids. It was a stupid Sesame Street book. When I got done and had put them to bed, their father said to me, “I know why you like to read so much, you read really well.” He is …