Mailbox Monday is where other bloggers write about the books they received the previous week. The Printed Page is the host of the Mailbox Monday meme. Visit her blog to see what books made it her way and get a chance to get one of her books once she’s done reading it. You can also [CONTINUE READING]
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Dec 202009
Another week of December has flown and now we’re counting down the days til Santa arrives Christmas Eve. Sociology class (and I passed…yippee) is finally finished and I’m now officially on holiday break. Woohoo!! Christmas Eve meal has been finalized so all that’s left is picking up the items so I’ll be ready to begin [CONTINUE READING]
Dec 132009
OMG! Is Christmas REALLY less than 2 weeks away?! Even though we’re simplifying Christmas gifts this year, I’m so behind on the gift department! Decided that the best way to offset a meager gift budget would be to get creative, redesign, and make as much as I could using items I could find or purchase [CONTINUE READING]
A GOOD TALK is an analysis of and guide to that most exclusively human of all activities– conversation. Drawing on over forty years of experience in American letters, Menaker pinpoints the factors that drive and enliven every good conversation: the vagaries (and joys) of subtext; the deeper structure and meaning of conversational flow; the subliminal [CONTINUE READING]
