Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Monday, July 29, 2019

A Good Story is Never Just a Story

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Followers of this blog know I belong to a writer's forum.  One quote from Steven King we stress is about a writer having to read.  This...
Monday, December 17, 2018

A fun piece over at the Register Today

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Today, I gave some of my family's favorite Christmas stories a little shout out over at the Register... Here's the link:  Six Christ...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Sometimes We All Need Reminders

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Woke up in the middle of the night feeling like I'd somehow flunked a quiz.  Writing/publishing's been slow. Weight's remained s...
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Saturday, April 21, 2018

What We Wish for Them

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Most days, I spend much of the time in the classroom trying to convince students they should read the meager 4, 7 or 11 such pages assigned....
Thursday, March 29, 2018

The Lazy Catholic Intellectual Starter Kit

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I read a piece last week for the National Catholic Register on what every Catholic Library needs.  I looked at the list and thought about ho...
Friday, October 11, 2013

7 Quick Takes Friday

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1. So what did you learn on your week off? I need to write. It helps me to deal with everything.  It also keeps my family and friends in...
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Sunday, September 29, 2013

7 Quick Takes

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1. If I didn't have these ten people to take care of, I'd hang out at the beauty parlor all day. Not because I want to get my hair...
Friday, September 20, 2013

7 Quick Takes and Small Successes Mushed Together

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1. Yesterday's Small Successes We got through the week.  Some weeks, that's sufficient.  To watch my friend and her family go th...
Friday, June 21, 2013

7 Quick Takes

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1. What I am Writing. Fiction: Penelope is much harder than Helen, because she does not have the volumes of secondary sources and much o...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

Book Report

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Summer reading is a luxury I eagerly anticipate every year.   Like overpriced cheap ice cream from a truck, there's just something elega...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Small Success Thursday

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It's Thursday and that means it's the day we stop to look back at the past week's small successes; those little things that cumm...
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Friday, May 6, 2011

Quick Takes Friday

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1.  Happy Mother's Day I must call my mom sometimes two and three times a day.  Just because she's in Texas doesn't mean I don...
Friday, August 27, 2010

Seven Quick Takes Friday

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1. Where'd my Extra Hands Go? Today, my oldest two went to high school.  The freshman started Monday, the senior started today.  I drov...
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Friday, June 11, 2010

The Boring Parts of the Book

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With summer upon us, I am trying to remind my offspring that reading is a richer better and less likely to be disturbed by Mom means of pass...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Serial Readers

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One of my parenting quests is to raise all nine children to absolutely love books. I've worked hard to expose each of my kids to classic...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Dotted Quarter Notes

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Anyone who has made it through a few years of music, has discovered the challenge of dotted quarter notes. For me, they were a stopping poi...
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Sunday, January 4, 2009

Why Resolutions Don't Work in 2009

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It's 2009. I didn't make a resolution. But then I haven't bought a converter box yet either. Maybe it's the times. Maybe it...
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Friday, May 9, 2008

The Surest Sign there are No More Weeks of Winter

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There is one bonifide signal that Spring has set into motion in earnest. Last minute school projects. Every parent has had that dreaded mome...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

Five Questions...Maybe Six...

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I keep thinking of doing a 24 hours in my day type entry in this blog but every time I’ve considered the possibility, I’ve quite honestly lo...
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