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Seeing

Each year I splurge on the Newbery Medal Award-winning and Caldecott Medal Award-winning books.  If you follow the children’s book awards given out by the American Library Association, you’ll know that these awards (in addition to many others) are decided in January, and this past Monday was this year’s announcement day.  [My interest lies in […]

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Say Hey (I Love You)

I’m not an avid fan of rap, but I couldn’t resist this one.  There’s such sheer unrivaled joy in it, and it says what I want to say to my…patron of the arts.  Yep, that’d be my husband.  I got to thinking the other day that he is exactly that.  I wouldn’t have been able […]

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Rock the Cradle

Two more days until the arrival of Eve on bookshelves.  It feels a bit surreal.  It’s a little like hanging your laundry out to dry, and having people comment on the type of underwear you wear.  Indeed, I’m guessing this is how artists of all mediums feel–a little exposed, a little vulnerable.  But, as I’ve […]

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Oscar Nominees

This will be the first year that Dan and I will not have seen most, if not all, of the Oscar-nominated films before Oscar night.  In the past, we have found that throwing our own votes into the mix spices things up. This afternoon Dan and I saw Revolutionary Road, based on Richard Yates’s 1962 […]

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The Invitation

“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.  I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.” So starts Oriah’s poem that opens her book. A friend sent this book to me, having sent me quotes from it while Dan and I were […]

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