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New Year's Resolutions 2017Another year, another string of promises I don't really intend to keep ( Read more... )

Seanie and I had originally planned to attend a New Year's Eve party tonight, but the hostess got sick and the party has been canceled. I don't mind. A quiet evening in sounds just fine to me. I can sit here at my desk and contemplate all the ways I failed to hit the resolutions made last January.

2016 New Year's Resolutions

Eliminate blogging ( Read more... )

My dear friend Sarah - we grew up together, so close that I often refer to her as "cousin" - recently got engaged. She's far far away in Maine right now for school, so I haven't seen her in a while, but I was super happy when I heard the news because her fiance is a lovely guy ( Read more... )

The first thing Mama Buckley did when we got to her house this morning was load Seanie up with as many drugs as possible to treat his cold. The woman's an amateur pharmacist, and she has the dosage for every over-the-counter cold and pain treatment memorized. She kept telling him, "Take ___, and you can it with this much of ___, and if you use a ( Read more... )

It was busy at the bookstore today. We had a steady stream of customers and we ended the day two thousand dollars over Christmas Eve 2015's sales. And yet, though I was never idle, the store didn't seem to hustle and bustle as it should. Christmas Eve seemed just a touch slower than my expectations ( Read more... )

When Seanie and I came home from Rogue One a couple of nights ago, our street was blocked off and filled with fire trucks and police cars. It was too dark to see anything clearly, but we spotted white foam on the ground in front of the house next to us. The smell of smoke was in the air, but it was a strange, chemical odor, not the comparatively ( Read more... )

Today I had a lady walk in the door and ask if we sold wrapping paper. I said no, but we offer complimentary gift wrap on items purchased from us. She said she didn't want anything, than asked if we would sell her some of our paper because "she didn't want to wait in line at a real store."

Needless to say, she didn't get any wrapping paper.