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June 30, 2009 11:38 PM EDT --
Hey friends -
I just wanted to let my gather cohorts know that I'm now putting my online energies into a new blog about arts and culture in Minnesota, called " State of the Arts ." My goal is to create . . .
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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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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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January 02, 2009 03:27 PM EST --
When it comes to reading, January is my favorite time of year. The holiday celebrations and work parties are over, my evenings are free from last-minute baking and gift-wrapping, and now, as we dig into . . .
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November 14, 2008 05:44 PM EST --
This morning I just finished reading "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold, and I'm still figuring out what I think of it. Did the detached voice of the main character help, or hurt? Is it . . .
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September 30, 2008 10:23 AM EDT --
In church a couple of Sundays ago, our congregation was surprised when the baskets were passed, and inside them were envelopes of money for each family to TAKE. Our ministers said they wanted us to do . . .
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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 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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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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June 12, 2008 09:25 AM EDT --
Hey all! Late spring/early summer is getting the best of me - gardening, biking, and storm watching! Last night's storm was a great edition of the "Theater of the sky." Lightning! Thunder! . . .
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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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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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March 06, 2008 03:32 PM EST --
First Off, my apologies for the late start: I've spent the last week in bed with the flu with not even enough energy to pick up a book, let alone read it or write about it! It seems to be going round, . . .
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February 04, 2008 11:28 AM EST --
This is going to be a GREAT month for reading. I just know it. Why? Because later this month my 'significantly other' and I are going away for a four-day weekend, and all we plan to do is . . .
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January 29, 2008 10:07 AM EST --
Hi all -
I just want to make sure you know about a fun event taking place at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul on Sunday, February 3rd at 2pm. This is a family friendly event, so kids are welcome! . . .
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December 31, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
Welcome to a whole new year!
I admit, I make some half-hearted new year's resolutions around this time... usually it centers around more exercise, less eating... more listening, less talking... . . .
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December 06, 2007 06:10 PM EST --
(humming:) "The weather outside is frightful...."
It's the perfect time of year for curling up with a good book. Except of course for all the holiday festivities, family gatherings, . . .
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November 01, 2007 06:01 PM EDT --
I'm just back from my aforementioned trip to China, and I've got lots to report. Not only did I get some recommendations in Chinese literature by a professor in Beijing, but I also traded . . .
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October 04, 2007 12:03 PM EDT --
Change is in the air... colder nights, the leaves are turning, I'm making soups instead of salads, and I'm drinking more tea than ice water. Ahhh - I LOVE fall.
I'm also getting . . .
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September 04, 2007 01:31 PM EDT --
The State Fair is officially over, the kids are heading back to school, and in the past week there's been a little chill in the evening air that foreshadows the onset of fall. There's still work . . .
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