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A Different Post Than I Planned

I was going to write a totally different post today, but Life Happened and I decided I didn’t want to go there. (Had a great picture picked and everything, but it’s already Monday. I think we already know we’re on the skirmish line to a new week.) Was browsing through the hub’s Flickr page and…

Where do you Read?

I was watching HGTV (I think it was Sara 101 or something like that) and the host decorated this office with two, chaise lounges. If I had a chaise lounge two feet from my desk, I wouldn’t get much done. I’d be on the chaise lounge reading. When the host moved on from the chaise…

Perilous P Makes a Top Ten List

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Everywhere I go online there are lists, so I thought I’d do a list this week. I haven’t done one since my “how not to kick the bucket” list. The challenge, of course, is a list of what? I’ve already done the bucket list. I know I haven’t seen ten movies this year. I don’t…

Book Chemistry or How do You Read?

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“They” (who are they anyway) say that if a child doesn’t make the transition from picture books to middle grade novels, it reduces the chances of them becoming long time readers. I have no idea if this is true or not. Nor do I remember my transition. It feels like one moment I was reading…

Do You Hear What I Hear?

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It’s Monday and it’s Christmas Eve here where I live. Not quite sure that that adds up to in the smite stakes, but even on Monday I try to be optimistic. Hey, we survived the end of the world. So, we’re good, right? Well, everyone but Santa… I’m guest blogging over at the Blog Ring…

The Way of the Hermit

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Hello, my name is Pauline Baird Jones and I follow the Way of the Hermit. No, I wasn’t a cross-dressing member of Herman’s Hermits, though there was a time when I really dug their sound. But I don’t sing all that well, can’t play guitar and I don’t like crowds, so I can’t follow the…