Daily Post asks: Terminal Time: You’re at the airport, your flight is delayed for six more hours, and none of your electronic devices is (sic) working. How do you pass the time? I pull out my paperback and continue reading. If I finish it, I pull out the next one in my bag. Alternately, I […]
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Photo courtesy of SecretSafeBooks.com Now that’s a bed! When I saw it, all I could think was, “Right. And I just know I would need one of the books at the very bottom or in some critical structure part of the deal….” Still, how can you not love that bed? I read long ago that […]
Yesterday, Bob Woodward and Max Fisher of the Washington Post each wrote a review of former Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates’ book, “Duty,” coming out on January 14, 2014. It’s causing ripples and outcries as this man was considered on both sides, Democrat and Republican, to be outstanding in his service for both the Bush […]
Long, long ago in a faraway land, there was a 12 year old girl, named Jane, who had reached the limit of her patience with her older brother. He was making her life miserable. He simply had to go. The only problem was if she killed him, she knew the police would gloam onto her […]
I may be the last person on the planet to have not seen The Hunger Games, the 2012 film, until this evening. I remember hearing about it, but it just shot over my radar and kept going. To my surprise, it was just excellent, right from the gitgo. The books came out in 2008 as […]
Daily Prompt: “What was your favorite book as a child? Did it influence the person you are now?” Books to me are friends, new and old ones. I love the freshness of a new book and cheerfully crack the spines, bend the pages, whatever it takes to read comfortably. Not that fond of hardbound books […]
“Explore the room you’re in as if you’re seeing it for the first time. Pretend you know nothing. What do you see? Who is the person who lives there?” Well, doggoneit! I had planned to throw my two cents into the mix re guns, violence, videogames and now I’m distracted. Another rabbit hole. “Whoa! That […]
Chasing Rabbit Holes 