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winter sunlight

January 26, 2012

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fashion queen in the heart of winter

January 26, 2012

Red, darling, to stand out against the white of snow, the dark bare branches of trees.

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The Joy of Books

January 12, 2012

Found the above on this delightful site with the silly name sent to me by my sister-in-law (thank you!). The photos on the site make me want to pound the table and say, with Sally, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” (I heart bookshelves.)

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Reading is Not Optional

January 10, 2012

Walter Dean Myers is being sworn in today as the new Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, an ungainly title, but a great job. His stated theme for his time in the post is, “Reading is not optional.” On NPR this morning he talks about his life, reading, and some of the initiatives he hopes to [...]

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BOOKS

January 4, 2012

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happy holidays

December 31, 2011

are spent like this:

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fashion queen at the end of the year

December 31, 2011

She’s given up her spare costume of last winter for some New Year’s Eve decadence. Garlic scapes, darling.

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Joyeux Noël à tous

December 24, 2011

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what a difference a day makes

December 23, 2011

On the first day of winter in New Hampshire, the ferns, though flattened, were green, the moss was bright emerald green, the mountain laurel was green, and this lovely ground cover was green, green, green:

On the second day of winter, my children’s dream of a white Christmas may be coming true.

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In Memoriam

December 19, 2011

So many friends and family members have experienced the death of someone near to them in this past year, and are still in the first year of mourning. Marge Piercy’s poem “Kaddish,” an interpretation of the Kaddish spoken by Jewish mourners during the first year after the death of a close family member, also seems [...]

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