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alixwrites  tagged me for this meme.  It was fun because it made me think. 1. Hard­cover or paper­back, and why? Paper­back. Hard­cov­ers are unwieldy to hold, and I like to read with one hand.  Hard­cov­ers are for col­lec­tions. 2. If I were to own a book shop I would call it… Barnes & Noble.  Just kid­ding. Cup & …

Alice is a Seat­tle teenager who seeks advice from a poster. She has two tree-hugger par­ents, one good friend, and an end­less thirst for vanilla lattes. What she’d really like, though, is a boyfriend, some­one, any­one who will notice her, so she asks her poster-advisor, Dove Girl, to send one her way. The prob­lem is, …

When our youngest had a cold last week, she sneezed uncov­ered.  I told her, always cover a sneeze so you wouldn’t give another per­son your cold. Oddly, she con­tin­ued to sneeze uncov­ered, and when I came down with the same awful cold this week, she was delighted.  Last night, as I sneezed (I cover, btw) …

            The Uni­ver­sity of Ten­nessee is my dou­ble alma mater. I took my under­grad Eng­lish and doc­toral Edu­ca­tion degrees from there.  Many of the land­mark events of my life occurred on cam­pus or were put into motion by cam­pus events. I remem­ber my uni­ver­sity fondly (but not fondly enough to increase my annual gift, so …

Rub, rub. Blink, blink.  Is that day­light I see?  Yes, it is!  It’s time to come out of my cave. It’s been a long month. I’m con­vinced that Punx­sutawney Phil was a writer in a pre­vi­ous life.  Revi­sions are what finally did him in.