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The Valentine's Day Five
I will preface this post by stating that I'm not a Valentine's Day person. I typically don't go in for all the schmaltzy, gooey trappings of this force-fed holiday. So why am I posting this Valentine's Day? Perhaps subconsciously all of the items I'd pulled together...
Friday Five
1. Reggie and Me. 2. A Room of One's Own. One of the daily prompts this week just made my heart go pitter patter: A genie has granted your wish to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What's it like? My apartment is so small that the idea of having a...
Friday Five
1. Weekly photo challenge. I usually don't participate in the photo challenge because I'm a terrible photographer. Look no further than this blog as evidence of that. But I enjoy looking through real photographers' interpretations of the week's theme. Last week was...
Friday Five
1. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. I forget when I originally heard about author Colm Toibin, only that his name kept popping up in various places until I picked up his most recent book, Brooklyn. Boy, I'm glad I did. This is one of those books that sneaks up on you. At...
Friday Five
1. My Tiny Spark. I was absolutely thrilled that my favorite Tennessean, Tori over at The Ramblings, featured a piece I wrote about Pearl Fryar as part of her Tiny Spark series. Mr. Fryar has single-handedly cultivated a garden oasis of 300 topiaries in his...
Friday Five
1. Christmas tree graveyard. A little sad to see all of these trees, decorated and primped only days ago, waiting for the mulcher. 2. Technology Sabbath. On Wednesday, our network servers went down for the better part of the day. No email. No shared files. No...
We All Will Be Received in Graceland
A few memories from my trip to Graceland. Today is Elvis's birthday. He would have been 78 ___________________________________________________________ When I was in high school, I was in a one-act play entitled "Graceland," written by Ellen Byron, about two women...
Friday Five
Over the holidays I spent time visiting my parents in Tennessee. Here is a little recap of the trip. 1. Cows on the move. Across the street from the house is this cow pasture. I usually don't have the opportunity to be so close to animals this large, and let me tell...
Welcome 2013!
The confetti is litter. The hangover is in full swing. The resolutions are already broken. Well, that's me. How about you? How have you all been these past few weeks? I took a little break while I visited my family in Tennessee. (More on that in this week's Friday...
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