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I did better with friends this month than I did with family.  I'll spare the details, but just say that I met my monthly goal for friend...

The Song of Achilles has been on my radar for a while.  I was still a bookstore employee when it was originally released, and I heard lots ...

I have never read Pablo Neruda before.  Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair did not start out well for me.  I did not like any, until I...

I don't know why I put off reading this book for so many years.  It turns out, it's a rollicking good time! Arthur Conan Doyle's...

 

What is a good goal for November?  I still have some holdovers from October, but those are boring.  So here's the plan: contact at least...

 

This month was not a massive failure.  Here's where I succeeded: - Cleaned out and weeded the columbine bed, and divided some of the bi...

I've started a number of projects that remain unfinished.  Among them are: - Patching some holes in the walls of our house; - Weeding my...