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More Than One
Welcome to my holiday post! I am no good at holiday posts! Instead, I shall tell you something that amused me this week ( Read more... ) -
My Daughter Just Made Rear Admiral
I am about to do something extraordinary. I am going to give out the highly coveted, exceptionally rare, Best! Idea! EVAR!! Award.
The Award Goes to ... (dramatic pause) (drumroll) ... an eBook.
It cost me $1.99.
Here's the story: I bought this book for the Princess. It's essentially a choose-your-own-adventure book, formatted for Kindle. Which ( Read more... ) -
Catching the Reluctant Reader
Miss Chief is a right-brained reluctant reader with a fondness for doing things out of sequence ( Read more... ) -
Summer Reading Challenge, 2011
There are lots of ways to do a summer reading challenge. As a child, I would sign up each summer for the summer reading program at my branch library, diligently filling out my sheets with lists of titles and authors and (I have never seen or heard of this anywhere else) making my oral book report to the librarian who manned the summer reading club ( Read more... ) -
Storm Diary VII
All good things must come to an end.
( This was the largest remaining piece to the puzzle that is normalcy. ) -
Storm Diary V
It seems I begin each diary with something I should have mentioned in the previous one. Like so:
( For the most part, I was not worried about the food I was losing to the power outage. Having seen the devastation all around me, I rather felt profoundly fortunate and grateful for everything I still had. ) -
Storm Diary IV
The third day after the tornado.
( I feel compelled to say something about the coffee situation, because the coffee situation matters a great deal to me. ) -
Storm Diary III
I live less than 1/4 mile from where the EF-5 tornado hit in North Alabama on April 27. I posted this journal of my experience of the tornado and its aftermath on my facebook account, where cathshaffer saw it and urged me to repost it here. I posted the first two, but when it looked like nobody was reading, I didn't bother with the rest right away. Turns out ( Read more... ) -
Storm Diary II
After the storm that went through between about 4 and 5 PM on Wednesday, all of the neighbors in our cul-de-sac spilled out of our homes to take a look around and check on one another. We were all okay; no injuries. Nobody had power. Our cell phones weren't working; we couldn't get connections. The kids splashed through puddles and gasped over the ( Read more... )