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Lighthouses: (Cool) Beacons in the Storm

Port Isabel Light “Wave-swept Towers: In determining the design of a lighthouse tower to be erected in a wave-swept position consideration must be given to the physical features of the site and its surroundings.” Bishop Rock Lighthouse I grew up landlocked, the only waves “sweeping” ashore close to me was out at the local pond.…

Ashe and Lurch Escape Book for an Interview!

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You turn your back to work on a new book and poof! Ashe and Lurch (he had no choice, of course) snuck out for an interview at Laurie’s Thoughts and Reviews! And they are hosting a giveaway of a gift card from AnaBanana’s Bath & Body Treats! I’m not quite sure how they managed it,…

Time Travel to 1940 Dunkirk?

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“Make for that black smoke in the sky – that’s Dunkirk…” Escape from Catastrophe: 1940 Dunkirk I was looking through a list of blog prompts and found one asking what event in history would I most like to visit. Now I could make a pretty long list of events I’d like to see with…

Do You Know Roswell?

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So, a gal walks into an (unnamed) chain bookstore–okay, so I was the gal and this isn’t one of those jokes. It’s a (mostly) true story. I usually shop for books online, because all I have to do is click and the books come to me, but this time I wanted to thumb through some…

Daring to Act on Your Dreams

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Once upon a time a young girl dreamed of becoming a writer. As she grew up, she wrote a few things in secret but she never told anyone her dream. Then she met her handsome prince (actually a geology student, but still a prince!) and they married. When she told him her dream, he urged…

Will You Miss Those Encyclopedic Tomes?

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The news that Encyclopedia Britannica is going digital only was not a huge shock. Information is changing too fast for the fixed format of an encyclopedia, and those things were heavy and took up a LOT of space, but it did make me a bit nostalgic. Back in the day (sounds better than “in the…

A “Gift” for 35 Years

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In 1955, the year Godzilla came to be and the year of my birth, Anne Morrow Lindberg’s Gift from the Sea was released to almost instant acclaim. It continues to be read and enjoyed today. Why does this slim volume–it’s only 138 pages–persist in engaging readers over fifty-six years after its first publication? And why…

My Promise to go Batcrap Crazy

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So, I’m not cute, what of it? I said something in one of my blogs about not going batcrap crazy and someone commented that they wanted to see that. So I thought today would be a good day to go bat crap crazy here on my blog (I wonder what a bad day would be?). Lots…

Bravo JK Rowling. HARRY POTTER Digital Release

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With the release (finally!) of the digital editions of the Harry Potter books, and the last movie, it feels like I’ve come full circle. I first heard about Harry from my son’s homeschool group. I looked them up online and was a bit dismayed to find them a) only available in hard cover and b)…

Puzzling the Link Between Jigsaws and Books

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Every now and again I am overcome with the urge to do a jigsaw puzzle. Mostly I resist the temptation because I get obsessed with finishing and about kill myself staying up too late to finish them. I don’t bounce back from late nights like I used to (I don’t bounce at all anymore) and…