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Book 26 Colm Toibin is the Irish author of Brooklyn, a One Book One Chicago pick from a couple of years back. I liked it enough to pick up a couple more of his novels. The Master is a fictional study of several years… Continue Reading “The Master, by Colm Toibin”
I’ve been posting pics of Sigmund on Facebook recently and my friends at the Refuge all marvel at how great he looks. I thought it was worth going back to take a look: When he first came to my house as a foster –… Continue Reading “Evolution of Sigmund in Pictures”
Book 25 Three old college dorm-mates take turns befriending then being betrayed by the same mysterious schoolmate, Zenia. One day, she turns up dead. They are not sad. Several years later, she turns up alive. And she is screwing with them. The story felt… Continue Reading “The Robber Bride, by Margaret Atwood”
I spent a whole lot of time in my backyard last summer. Housetraining a puppy. Seriously, I have never spent so much time in the backyard before. I kinda liked it. So when the weather warmed up, I started heading out back with the… Continue Reading “New Routine”
Three Project Linus events in one week: Saturday’s Bi-Monthly Blanket Day – 490 blankets bagged, tagged and ready to deliver Tuesday’s Fundraiser at Culver’s – $455 raised on the raffles alone and a pile of quilt squares from Kids Helping Kids Wednesday’s Monthy Starbucks’s… Continue Reading “Blankets 32 & 33”
The other night, I went downstairs to let the dogs out and put the birds to bed. This is what I found in Kiwi’s cage: I’ve been through this enough times at the Refuge to have a clue. First, look at the bird: is… Continue Reading “With the Blood”
I am not sure I’d ever even heard of A Little Night Music before. And if you ask me tomorrow, what’s playing at Writers’ Theatre, I will probably say, “that one with Send in the Clowns“. But damn, it was good. Writers’ doesn’t have… Continue Reading “Writers’ Theatre: A Little Night Music”
Book 24 When I picked up this book at the Library’s Used Book Store, I thought I could read it in place of watching the documentary. But the film follows people, particularly children, trying to break out of the failing system. The book is… Continue Reading “Waiting for Superman: How We Can Save America’s Failing Public Schools, edited by Karl Weber”
My chapter of Project Linus is holding its bi-monthly Blanket Day tomorrow, which means that today was a different kind of Laundry and Packing Day: The large, yellow one used a variegated yarn. I forget the name but am pretty sure it involved the… Continue Reading “Blankets 25 – 31, 2012”
I spent a few days in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina for a conference. The nearest airport is Wilmington, but cost + schedules = had-to-rent-a-car-anyway led me to fly into Raleigh and drive the two hours to the coast. The hotel was a Holiday Inn… Continue Reading “Wrightsville Beach”
The Next Dark Age 