Tag: marianne combs
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July 02, 2008 05:54 PM EDT --
Happily, I'm about to embark on yet another reading retreat. This time it's a week in Door County, with nothing on the agenda except for biking, reading and napping. I've got a stack of books . . .
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February 03, 2008 06:43 PM EST --
My husband and I attended a reading by Gregory Maguire at the Fitzgerald Theater this afternoon. We arrived about 1:40 to pick up our tickets at the Will Call window and discovered it was general seating . . .
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May 01, 2008 04:33 PM EDT --
May Day! May Day!
I mean "Happy May Day!"
I'm finding the tug of spring pulling me away from my books... "you can't read! there's gardening to be done!" . . .
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August 01, 2008 05:05 PM EDT --
It's the peak of summer - the garden is growing with the occasional help of a heavy dousing, things are slow at work, and it's just too dang hot out these days to do much of anything. . . .
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March 05, 2009 01:58 PM EST --
My fiance and I were just in Oregon for a long weekend, and since we flew into Portland, couldn't help but pay a visit to the Mecca of all bookstores - Powell's. The place is enormous - covering . . .
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April 07, 2008 04:48 PM EDT --
So I really thought is was spring - really, I was pretty darn sure - so I got out all my gardening books, started making plans for the garden, and then.... snow. And more snow. And snow mixed with rain. . . .
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February 17, 2009 04:45 PM EST --
I find myself stumbling between fiction and non these days. I just received four books in the mail - two on gardening, one cookbook, and one book on making cheese. But oddly in the winter months, . . .
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September 04, 2008 12:06 PM EDT --
Is it really September already? Can it be true that summer has come and gone, and the fall chill is here to stay? Is the state fair really over? How did I miss this?
Oh, I know - it's because . . .
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August 08, 2006 03:16 PM EDT --
I've struggled with the notion of "writerhood" for years. I remember as a child, it was the only thing I wanted to be when I grew up. I was totally absorbed by books, spent entire summers . . .
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January 30, 2008 04:42 PM EST --
We have a recap volunteer for the following event:
Yeah, I've heard a rumor there's a football game on Sunday evening, but literature lovers and those mad for music have an . . .
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November 06, 2006 10:31 PM EST --
As an artist and arts advocate I appreciated seeing MPR's Marianne Comb's report: New study points to "balkanized" cultural landscape.
The University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute . . .
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June 28, 2006 01:55 PM EDT --
I admit it - I love old-looking leather-bound books.... even some that I wouldn't necessarily read for their content, if they're beautiful enough, I might want to buy them just as an object of . . .
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