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An ode to NPR

Ten things I love about NPR (National Public Radio): Being greeted by the cheery Morning Edition theme and Steve and Renee reporting the news and not so news. So calm, so relaxed. It’s all going to be OK. The voices of Weekend Edition Saturday’s Scott Simon and the BBC News’s Julian Marshall. *Swoons*! Puzzle Master Will Short challenges.  I can never solve them but…

#SOCS: Everything’s Coming Up Milhouse

It’s Sunday and Fadra has asked us in today’s (optional) Writing Prompt: What is success to you and how will you know when you achieve it? This week is probably not the best week for me to crow about success. I have been feeling like the world’s worst mother, work has been sluggish and home…all that progress I was so excited about…

Owning

Source: wanelo.cachefly.net via Becca on Pinteres Spring break and this is the scene…parents are working and they send their kids to the library to “read.” These kids do read for a bit but after being in the library for a few hours they get comfortable and start o mess around, throwing toys, wrestling, you know doing what I like to call screwing around. Sometimes these…

M is for

Missing.   My Lil went AWOL earlier this week and the fur is just settling. Lil is an indoor cat and each time The Bee or I head out of the house Lil stands near the front door to attempt a mad dash outside. She had some deck privileges but the privileges had been revoked when Lil jumped off of the…

Write a Review Wednesday: I Don’t Like Gloria

I Don’t Like Gloria by Kaye Umansky, illustrated by Margaret Chamberlain. From School Library Journal PreSchool-Grade 1–Here’s another look at the age-old predicament of feeling supplanted by an unwelcome newcomer to the household. Calvin, a small dog, is perfectly happy being the only animal in the house until, out of the blue (Nobody asked me), a cat named Gloria moves in. Feeling ignored…