Dear Marcus - McGill

Jerome "Jerry" McGill was barely a teenager in the 1980's when, walking through his Manhattan Lower East Side neighborhood, he heard a crack. The next thing he knew, he was laying on the pavement unable to move. In a heartbeat, his dreams of being an athlete or a performer were shattered. His life...

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Tuesday Tunes - 07/30/13

A great lyric is like a great book... You're So Vain Carly Simon, Artist & Writer You walked into the party Like you were walking onto a yacht Your hat strategically dipped below one eye Your scarf it was apricot You had one eye in the mirror As you watched yourself gavotte And...

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Mondays - 07/29/13

This meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Now Reading: With or Without You, A Memoir (Domenica Ruta) Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not? (Thompson Square) Just Finished: My Lost and Found Life (Melodie Bowsner) On Deck: Many... ...

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Heads in Beds - Tomsky

Armed with a philosophy degree and not much more, Jacob Tomsky grabs the first job he can find after college. He quickly finds himself on a career path he never anticipated or wanted. Accepting a position as a valet at a local hotel, he finds he can actually make good money while having fun. Through...

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Tuesday Tunes - 07/22/13

A great lyric is like a great book... We Didn't Start The Fire Billy Joel, Artist & Writer Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs,...

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Mondays - 07/22/13

This meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Now Reading: With or Without You (Domenica Ruta) Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not? (Thompson Square) Just Finished: My Lost and Found Life (Melodie Bowsner) On Deck: ... ...

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Strayed

Cheryl Strayed is just a tender twenty-two when her mother suddenly takes ill and passes away from cancer seven weeks later. Strayed is not only heartbroken, but completely shattered. Her already tenuous family (a brother, sister and stepfather) quickly falls apart despite her efforts to hold it together....

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Mondays - 07/15/13

This meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Now Reading: My Lost and Found Life (Melodie Bowsner) Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not? (Thompson Square) Just Finished: Dear Marcus (Jerry McGill) On Deck: So many on my li...

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June ReCap 2013...

  June 2013 Update June had been just as busy as May was, perhaps more so. Five more shows of Steel and a smattering of PV gigs thrown in over the weekend...I was literally running from one show to the next! Then I spent the third week of June in an exhausted stupor. I am finally getting...

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One Breathe Away - Gudenkauf

All too real and scary in this day and age, One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf is a multi-layered story of a town taken hostage by an unknown gunman, when he walks into the local school one snowy day and holds a classroom of third graders hostage. Told in brief chapters, the story unfolds the lives...

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Tuesday Tunes - 07/9/13

A great lyric is like a great book... See You Again  Carrie Underwood, Artist George Jones, Anthony Woods, Tony Harrison, Jacob Underwood, Writers Ohh Ohh Ohh Said goodbye, turned around  And you were gone, gone, gone   Faded into the setting sun Slipped away  But...

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Sunday Salon - 07/07/13

If you are interested in other Salon posts, visit the Facebook page to get links. July is here and my summer has finally begun!  Two weeks of vacation has been heavenly!! Hope everyone had a great fourth! Sorry for not stopping by, we decided to paint early in the week...despite the...

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Tuesday Tunes - 07/02/13

A great lyric is like a great book... It's Midnight Cinderella Garth Brooks, Artist Garth Brooks, Kent Blazy and Kim Williams, Writers (Note...this video is not actually Garth singing)   It's midnight Cinderella but don't you worry none 'Cause I'm Peter Peter the Pumpkin Eater...

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Mondays - 07/01/13

This meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Finally done with the busy crazy part of June, I am now enjoying a couple weeks of vacation (some reading, quite a bit of website maintenance, and perhaps a little home improvement...I'm hoping!) and looking forward to spending July...

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