Weekend Cooking - 11/30/13

Weekend Cooking is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, quotations, photographs. If your post is even vaguely foodie, feel free to grab the button and link up anytime...

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Happy Chanukah!

   to all who are celebrating the Festival of Lights! ...

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Happy Thanksgiving 2013!

Hope your holiday is a wonderful one!!   ...

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Tuesday Tunes - 11/26/13

A good lyric is like a great book... The Thanksgiving Song Adam Sandler, Writer & Artist "They wanna hear the thanksgiving song! All right.." "This is uhh, This is the Thanksgiving Song" "I hope you enjoy it." [Starts playing] Love to eat turkey Love to eat turkey [Shout from Crowd:]...

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Mondays - 11/25/13

This meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Now Reading: Everything Is Perfect When You're A Liar (Kelly Oxford) Just Finished:  Camp (Michael Eisner) On Deck: Good stuf...

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Sunday Salon - 11/24/13

If you are interested in other Salon posts, visit the Facebook page to get links. Life What up, bloggies?!  This past week has been busy catching up at work, preparing for a Purely Vocals performance, and preparing for this holiday week, during which I am on vacation! All I can...

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Throwback Thursday Reviews Coming...

Throwback Thursday Reviews As I've noted recently, I feel badly that I've had such a slow reading year. And of course I'd always like to offer more book reviews on my site, but being such a slow reader in a normal month makes this difficult, let alone my "slow months". Then I remembered...I've...

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Tuesday Tunes - 11/19/13

A good lyric is like a great book... Cherry Tree  10,000 Maniacs, Artist Robert Buck and Natalie Merchant, Writers Over your shoulder, please don't mind meif my eyes have fallen onto your magazineOh I've been watching and wonderingwhy your face is changing with every line you read.For...

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Mondays - 11/18/13

This meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Now Reading: Camp (Michael Eisner)   Just Finished:  Twelve Months (Steven Manchester) On Deck: An ever growing list......

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Twelve Months - Manchester

Don DiMarco has just received the worst news possible. He has been diagnosed with colon cancer and has, likely, no more than Twelve Months to live.  After the initial shock wears off, DiMarco and his wife Bella decide he might as well get busy doing just that, living! A "to-do" list is created...

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Sunday Salon - 11/10/13

If you are interested in other Salon posts, visit the Facebook page to get links.LifeSo, the past two weeks have been...not as restful as planned. Post party, I expected to rest and be lazy, rake some leaves and wait patiently for Thanksgiving. My body had different plans! The week after Halloween,...

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October 2013 ReCap...

October 2013 Update  Such a busy month, but not very reading-productive. Finally got some mojo back though, here's hoping November will be a good month! This month I read: Total Read: 2YTD:  31Adult: 2YA/children's: 0Abandoned: 0  Including: Like Family (Paula McLain) Wave...

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Wave - Deraniyagala

In December of 2004, Sonali Deraniyagala and her family were enjoying a lovely holiday in Sri Lanka. Deraniyagala's two sons were enjoying their time off from school in London, while she and her husband were resting from their busy lives as economics academics. Her mother and father had joined the...

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Mondays - 11/4/13

This meme is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. Crap on a cracker, I lost a whole week there! A head cold, followed by a stomach bug, just knocked me into oblivion. But, bed rest provides excellent reading time, doesn't it?! Now Reading:  Twelve Months (Steven Manchester) Just...

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