It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

It feels just a bit like I've actually lived a Dickens novel in the last 10 days or so. Triumph, tragedy, happiness and heartbreak, it was all here. Joy, pain, accomplishment, failure, stress and peace were all in the sentences and paragraphs I've just...

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Book Review: The Help

The Help by Kathryn Stockett Adult Fiction You might like this book if you like to read current bestsellers, you are interested in an interesting perspective on every-day racial tensions and relationships in the dawning of the civil rights movement,...

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This Week's Assignments

This week was a busy one for my class. Two assignments, plus lots of preparation for upcoming work.  I struggled this week, but I did my best. I did like the white chalk pencil on black paper. The idea of adding light instead of shadow as one does...

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Out of the Frying Pan

Yesterday ended my first week of being Concessions Manager for our high school Booster Club, and in practical terms it went okay, meaning we didn't run out of anything, nothing caught fire, and the answers that I'm making up when people ask me questions...

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First Assignment

I've decided I'm going to record my assignments for my art class, so here is the first one, the quintessential first art project, "Self-Portrait of Eye" drawn from life. I think anyone who has ever taken a beginning art class has done this or something...

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An Enhanced Book Review: The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionAdult, non-fiction, memoirYou might like this book if you like excellent writing, portraits of intimate emotions and relationships, or are interested in learning more about grief.I bought this at a sale some...

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How Does That Work Again?

This weekend was one of those in which I had arranged, by my own choice, to be of help to several different people in a very few days. I have no desire to share details or aggrandize my efforts, because I'm not any different than any other person I know...

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