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Wroblewski’s Webcast

If you’ve not read David Wroblewski’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, you must.  I reviewed it shortly before Oprah picked it as one of her Book Club selections.  You can read my review here, but be forewarned, I include spoilers, so you may want to wait until after reading. This past Monday evening, Oprah held […]

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Modeling Behavior

Well, Liliana and I went to the doctor this morning to get her bright pink cast off, and instead the doctor decided, after removing it and x-raying her thumb, to put another one back on–for two more weeks!  The bone is not healed yet.  Let me tell you.  The cast probably bothers us more than […]

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Hilarious Things

Dan and I were flying back from somewhere, when we discovered a book recommendation list in the US Airways Magazine.  One caught our eye immediately as the “funniest unknown book in the world,” and we decided that we had to read it (which we’ve both just done).  The postscript by Anthony Burgess says it best, […]

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Meghan’s Song

My sister Amy introduced me to Matthew Perryman Jones.  My favorite song opens his CD Throwing Punches in the Dark. This is for our sweet Liliana, who’s come to us from so far away.  Some days I can’t believe she’s made such a trip, and I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we’d […]

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Cain and Abel

Dan and I saw this massive painting–the kind you have to stand yards away from to take it all in–at the Musée d’Orsay in 2007.  I had finished Eve by that time, so I was interested in the cavemen-like representation of the characters, more along the lines of what you would expect the first people […]

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