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April 07, 2011 01:12 AM UTC --
Don’t let the modest size of TLC for Frazzled Kids: Helping Grown Ups Help Kids by Nancy Goodell and Ann Garrett fool you. Its 104 pages are packed with so much wisdom that, while . . .
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September 20, 2010 11:03 PM UTC --
TITLE: Healey’s Cave: a Sam Moore Mystery AUTHOR: Aaron Paul Lazar PUBLISHER: Twilight Times Books DATE OF PUBLICATION: August 15th, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-60619-162-0 PAGES: 267 GENRE: Paranormal . . .
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April 01, 2010 06:21 PM UTC --
The Grand Hotel in Trento, is a classy old hotel smack in the heart of the city. Delicious room, tasteful decor, scrumptious breakfast buffet, great drinks in the piano bar, and my precious Bill enjoying . . .
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March 01, 2010 05:07 PM UTC --
I first encountered Fiona Robyn via one of her blogs:
A Small Stone -- a snippet of poetry gleaned from the daily. I love pithy observations, insights that take something small and . . .
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February 07, 2010 07:23 PM UTC --
A delightful journey through a once important, now forgotten New Mexico town with one of the most distinctive, lively writing voices I've encountered. Birdie misses nothing. My Tiny Vegas by Birdie . . .
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January 30, 2010 11:03 AM UTC --
This is the continuation of an Italian Sojourn taken during the fall of 2008 with my husband Bill. A risky trip as we were retracing the journeys taken with my deceased husband Vittorio thirty . . .
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October 28, 2009 11:14 AM UTC --
After numerous turns around a town square outside the walls of Florence, the GPS system leading us to the wrong building in a different section of town with the same address, and several phone calls . . .
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September 16, 2009 01:49 PM UTC --
Assisi: parking ticket and all
We came to Assisi seeking St. Francis and Clare. We found them. We found, as well, a greeting from the Assisi police: a parking ticket. Parking in Assisi . . .
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August 27, 2009 09:24 PM UTC --
We ate breakfast on the terrace in Amalfi, served by skinny Renaldo who buzzed and hummed about, making an occasional nervous foray into conversation about his marriage to a Russian woman from Eastern . . .
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April 14, 2009 10:33 AM UTC --
My husband Bill is noise sensitive. Sounds of traffic, noise from factories, lawn equipment and machinery drive him batsy. I, on the other hand, having spent many years in a cloistered monastery on a . . .
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March 22, 2009 07:35 PM UTC --
Juliahna was diagnosed last August with acute myelogenous leukemia. Since then she’s undergone progressively more radical procedures, all the while keeping her friends informed of her progress through . . .
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February 27, 2009 03:39 PM UTC --
As if she'd been awaiting the exact moment of our arrival on the patio for breakfast the next morning, Rita –Titty’s mother (of La Maison de Titty ), hurried out with tiny éclairs with Nutella . . .
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January 27, 2009 11:36 AM UTC --
"What is it you REALLY believe?" asked a friend in her weekly email "On the Waterline."
She posted the question two days ago and I am still pondering the thought. What . . .
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January 17, 2009 07:09 PM UTC --
We left Rome for Naples on my birthday, October 10, 2008. This was not a wholly good idea, unless one thrives on travel tension. The day started off innocently enough when we took a taxi to the Termini . . .
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December 16, 2008 10:38 PM UTC --
Normally, while trudging through the deep sand along Lake Worth’s beach, we encounter lots of man-made debris cast up on shore by Atlantic’s waves along with slimy seaweed, tortured driftwood, . . .
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December 12, 2008 04:46 PM UTC --
Dark suits for men; long skirts and sleeves for women -- on a warm day, not such a good idea. The Vatican website suggested that for an audience with the Pope we should dress modestly so Bill and I . . .
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November 19, 2008 04:05 PM UTC --
When my hubby Bill surprised me with tickets to Italy to celebrate our 12 wedding anniversary and suggested that I plan the trip as I “knew Italy,” I thought “Oh my! Did I still “know” Italy 30 years . . .
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September 30, 2008 11:45 PM UTC --
"Leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again." John Denver's lyrics waft through my mind as I return to Gather for an intense day of reading and commenting, only . . .
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September 19, 2008 09:41 PM UTC --
Drinking from the Saucer by Charlene C. Duline is a fascinating memoir of a strong-headed, devout, and idealistic young black American woman who was among the first volunteers to join the Peace . . .
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August 13, 2008 08:33 PM UTC --
I took my grandchildren, Tommy age 10 and Cassie age 9 to Ely, Minnesota last week. Why take grandchildren to Ely when there’s so much to do and see here on Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior? Come . . .
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