Book Review: The Zookeeper’s Wife

The Zookeeper’s Wife Diane Ackerman Version: Kindle, borrowed through Overdrive/Maryland Digital Library Consortium Biography, History, Non-Fiction You might like it if you enjoy stories of ordinary people doing their part to help others, stories about...

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When was the last time you were clumsy?

(c)AdobeStockImages Okay...I’m upset enough to write about a current event. There’s a story gone viral that characterizes so many of my concerns about the larger world that I want to dissect it a bit. It’s the one about the Women in Math club at...

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Book Review: The Pillars of the Earth

Whoa! I went to do that thing I've done nearly every day for weeks and...it..was...finished! I feel a little bit of that sensation of "Now what?" Yes, I just finished listening to just over 40 hours of The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett and I'm...

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Serously?

A somewhat recent photo of Eric and I. You can't tell so much because of my beanie, but I've cut off my hair. So far, it hasn't caused me to lose any of my super-powers.  Ugh, I was really hoping it had been less time than this since I wrote...

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My Grandma Joy

Here are some thoughts about my Grandma. On August 12, My paternal grandmother, Joy Bateman Wixom Samson, died. She was 95 and had lived a full life of family, work, travel and love. She was an important and positive influence in my life, and while...

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