Posted in Uncategorized on March 26th, 2007 3 Comments »
A tulip bloomed today. Great sign that things will turn around.
I spent the whole day at the office today, putting books in big envelopes and printing mailing labels, postage included. The girls are on spring break so tomorrow they will go with me and help haul all the piles to the car, then into the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17th, 2007 6 Comments »
This post will be interesting to people who get raw address lists and have to format labels, and who don’t want to either retype the data or cut and paste each address block one by one:I got a list of three hundred addresses for a postcard mailing. The list was in Word, one column. I’m […]
Posted in books i'm mulling on March 16th, 2007 7 Comments »
I just finished Wolf Point by Edward Falco. Falco is the brother of Edie Falco, or Carmella Soprano to those who watched that once great show. Anyway, itis a fast-paced novel about regret and remembrance mixed in with a crime thriller plot. It would be a great book club book because everyone could fight about […]
Him Her Him Again the End of Him by Patricia Marx
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
A Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Traveler by Ron McLarty
Posted in Uncategorized on March 14th, 2007 6 Comments »
It was seventy again today. Almost all the snow is gone and the potholes are big enough on some streets to bury small cars. I drank some coffee out on the deck today, thinking about a few flowers to plant, nowhere near the kind of garden Emma has, but I’d like a little color back […]