Booking it a bit late: Highlights, 2007

Booking Through Thursday a bit late this week:
It’s an old question, but a good one . . . What were your favorite books this year?
List as many as you like … fiction, non-fiction, mystery, romance, science-fiction, business, travel, cookbooks … whatever the category. But, really, we’re all dying to know. What books were the highlight of [...]

We’re back, recovery mode: on

We’re back from the holidays, spent in balmy Alabama.

Laundry = done

Grocery shopping = done

Go get dog from kennel = not done, yet

I’d originally planned on going into work today, but for some reason, the vacation childcare places all are closed. Go figure. It’s probably just as well, since we’re all walking around, a little hungover [...]

Happy Holidays

By Kyra, age 5: Bob, Andrew, Me, Kyra
I have no idea why we’re gathered around a giant cup of coffee, but I’m kind of glad we are.
To you and yours this holiday season. May it bring peace, happiness, and of course, giant cups of coffee.

Brilliant ideas and story-thinking

Every once in a while, Kyra will come up to me and say, “Mommy! I have a brilliant idea!” Sometimes, this idea is no more than me following her to see something she’s done. Recently, she cleaned her room. Yes, all by herself. The child is already more organized than I am on my best [...]

Because it’s ballet

Yesterday was The Nutcracker. As promised, I give you the dress the marvelous Miss B finally chose to wear to this grand event:

She went for the simple, sleeveless red satin A-line dress with velvet bolero jacket trimmed with faux ermine. White tights and red sequins ballet flats complete the ensemble. The red and white candy [...]

Jeans: one woman’s lament

Once upon a time, I could walk into The Gap, pull a pair of jeans off the shelf, and walk out without having to try them on (uh, after paying for them, that is).
Then, one day, they stopped making relax fit, or classically relaxed, or whatever it was. The only things on the shelves were [...]

Again with the banning

This disturbs me. I suppose I shouldn’t be shocked or surprised by people passing judgment on something they haven’t read for themselves and instead, taking the word of someone they don’t even know. Because it fits neatly with their worldview? This is the part I really don’t understand.
In short, the Hillsborough County School Board is [...]

Booking it orderly

 Okay, I haven’t booked through Thursday for a while, so I thought I would.
Do you use any of the online book-cataloguing sites, like Library Thing or Shelfari? Why or why not? (Or . . . do you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking to?? (grin))
If not an online catalog, do you use any other [...]

How you got here

Here’s a few of the searches that brought people here: 

lots of writing about poor charity
Humpbacked lawyers

Seriously, people? What’s up with this. I’m pretty sure I’ve never blogged about lawyers, never mind those with humpbacks. And the other? My new motto: come for the (humpbacked) lawyers, stay for the self-pity.
In actual writing news, it looks like [...]

Hibernation

So Andrew is at a Boy Scout movie weekend campout. Since the temperature is hovering slightly above and below zero, they’re not really camping–they’re sleeping in a lodge. It’s really a big slumber party with lots of boy movies, but since they’re boys, they can’t call it that. They’re camping. He’s due back sometime today.
Yesterday, [...]