Here’s the bad news: I have fallen behind on the 75 book challenge by about two books.  I’m up to 10 but it seemed to take a long time to get through Spirituality for Our Global Community, a choice for my book group.
The prose was oddly stilted and while I’m not sure I didn’t agree [...]

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So now I know why people make themselves post every day…if you don’t, you suddenly lift your head and it’s been two weeks!  I have excuses, plenty of them: house sitting in a not-quite-so-connected house, commuting from said house, a bout of some flu bug, work, work, work, and so on.  Nothing special just really [...]

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The beginning of the semester here in the ‘burg put the brakes on my reading pace. But, now that most of the start up meetings are over and the syllabi are published, I’m back at it. It took me longer that I expected to finish two books: Girl Mary by Petru Popescu and [...]

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So, how did it get to be Friday again?  We lived through the snow storm over the weekend and the rest of the week just flew by.  I have been taking pictures for Project 365 at flickr.com and here’s a sampler:

1. 01/365 for 2010 Star Light, Star Bright, 2. 02/365 for 2010 Little Birdie, 3. [...]

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I added a few new book blogs to my aggregator including Should Be Reading.  I like the way the MizB has weekly topics including Musing Mondays and Teaser Tuesdays along with a few others.  Fridays are dedicated to “finds”: books you’ve heard about or discovered during the week.
I wandered into my Books A Million on [...]

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As of today, I have either read or listened to six books:
1. The Cart Before the Corpse by Carolyn McSparren
2. Scandalmonger by William Safire
3. The Mosaic Crimes by Giulio Leoni
4. The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
5. Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone
6. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz – audio [...]

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I’ve always wanted to participate in the photo a day project but I haven’t been able to get it together.  A colleague’s tweet today reminded me.  It’s already dark outside so I wandered around the living room taking pictures of Christmas decorations.  Here is today’s entry, a star from my Christmas tree:

I tend to be [...]

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It felt like it took a long time, but I finally finished The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed.  I am a fan of Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant, complex man whose paradoxes demonstrate his humanity.  This book spends a lot of time examining those paradoxes.
Because Gordon-Reed refers to the Hemings, Wayles, and [...]

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Old Dominion Electric Cooperative is proposing to build a 1500 Megawatt coal-fired electric plant in the tiny town of Dendron, Virginia.  It will be the second largest in Virginia.  It will emit nearly 15 million tons of CO2 each year contributing to Virginia’s increasing greenhouse gas emissions.  Maybe even more frightening is the 118 pounds [...]

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I just couldn’t let this one go without comment.  In this clip, John McCain basically blames his running mate’s statements about Pakistan on journalists!  And the question wasn’t even asked by a journalist.  Instead, it was a voter, shouting the question to her as she walked.  It was noisy, she just spouted off the first [...]

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