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I own the fact that I am a book vulture. Library book sales, clearance section at Half Price Books..I even stop at estate sales sometimes, just in case there are books. So I went to my local Borders today. Two of my three stores… Continue Reading “About Borders”
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And today is travel recovery day. While I am on rants about travel and cities that can’t deal with weather even though it totally happens. Here is what I learned on this trip: San Francisco’s airport does not have de-icing equipment. My flight was… Continue Reading “I am Home”
Weekend Assignment # 357: The Art of Packing When you go on a trip, do you travel light, or try to make sure you have everything you might conceivably need? Specifically, what do you bring along by way of electronics? Extra Credit: What’s the… Continue Reading “Packing Light, Sort Of”
This week’s Booking Through Thursday question was: There’s something wonderful about getting in on the ground floor of an author’s career–about being one of the first people to read and admire them, before they became famous best-sellers. Which authors have you been lucky enough… Continue Reading “BTT: Ground Floor”
This was my tooling around doing nothing day, as Tammy and Holly are flying in as we speak. I was up before dawn and sat around reading a magazine and the Blackberry for a few hours before heading out to get. My. Papaya. I… Continue Reading “Winter Vacation: Day 2”
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First of all, after I posted that I was bringing four back issues of Vanity Fair, I found three more under my travel computer case. So make it seven. On the full day of travel, I took out one of them and read an… Continue Reading “Winter Vacation: Day 1”
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Somewhere, in the last day or so, I read that Chicago has gotten 50+ inches of snow in each of the last four winters. That breaks a record or something. I thought, “Huh. I don’t remember last year being that bad. The year before… Continue Reading “Heading Out”
The Next Dark Age 