 I walked into the gym the other day and my eyes ran back and forth scoping the room for people who might notice that I was doing what all good nerds do. Studying while running. This is something that you just don’t do if you have any self respect at all. It is the apex of nerdiness. It screams to the [...] 
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan By Lisa See My best friend told me to stop reading Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. I was markedly depressed and, since I kept bringing up miserable topics of conversation like foot binding, she figured this book was the culprit. But [...]  #gallery-1 { By way of explanation…. I mentioned in one of my earlier posts that I had some clothes made while we were in Vietnam. Ok. That’s an understatement. I had a wardrobe of clothes made. When we got back to [...]  I was selected as an “Expert Reviewer” for Amazon’s New Writer’s Award and have been given forty excerpts to read and write a short review about each one. After reviewing five last night, I actually went to bed and did NOT want to read anything before falling asleep. The stories are diverse [...] Fresh herb rub (from my own garden) for our Fat Tuesday feast: Pork Shoulder with Roasted Fennel Bulbs. My life. After 15 years in the same house we have at long last moved into a new home that we built just 50 minutes away. I have been unpacking for two days now and I really thought that I had sent everything off to the Goodwill that I should and then… I now have five [...]
We went out for brunch yesterday after church and I just about threw up in my napkin when I saw that the “Soaring Eagle Breakfast” was going to cost me over $7. On the other hand, there are lots of positives to being home (besides friends and family), like: the toilets here flush with handles on [...] |
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