My husband and I both got our second dose of COVID-19 vaccine yesterday. I’ve waited to post in case either of us experienced any of the reactions to the second shot that I’ve been reading about. Last night we each had a very slight bit of soreness in our arm, but that had disappeared by […]
We don’t get much snow, except for occasional flurries, here near sea level on the coast of Washington. So when a storm hits, we make the most of it. Yesterday afternoon through this afternoon we got about 10 inches, which is quite a lot for this area. The Seattle Weather Blog noted that 8.9 inches
Happy Groundhog Day! I came across this list of time-loop books to celebrate with and felt it my duty to share it with you: 13 Great Time Loop Books to Read This Groundhog Day I’ve read three of these books: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
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What I Learned from COVID-19 I keep reading things like “I can’t wait to be done with 2020 and move on to 2021.” Do most people truly believe that merely taking one calendar off the wall and hanging up another one is going to change their day-to-day existence? Such magical thinking. Reality doesn’t work that
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We’ve all been waiting for 2021, and finally it’s here! And to get this new year started off right, The Guardian has put together The 31-Day Literary Diet for January: “From a Shirley Jackson short story to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 30-minute Ted talk, nourish your mind with our one-a-day selection of literary treats.”
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Most of the annual best books of the year lists refer only to books published during the stated calendar year. But my annual list always refers to books I read this year, regardless of when they were published. Here, then, are the 10 best books I read this year, listed alphabetically by author, plus 5
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Related Post: My Reading Plan for 2020 I just went back and reread my reading plan for 2020. Then I had a good laugh. I did relatively well with Part I: Specific Challenges and Goals. I didn’t meet most of the goals, but I’m being gentle with myself in evaluating how well I did under
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If ever there was a time that required an extra helping of holiday cheer, 2020 is it. Please allow me to send each of you an extra-big helping of cheer this winter. Thank you for sharing the book life with me during these crazy times. And if you’re looking for some particular examples of holiday
In my research and experience as a teacher educator, I have found social studies curricular materials (textbooks and state standards) routinely place indigenous peoples in a troubling narrative that promotes “Manifest Destiny” – the belief that the creation of the United States and the dominance of white American culture were destined and that the costs
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As we prepare to turn the clocks back an hour on Sunday morning, experts in winter depression say the loss of daylight — just as coronavirus infections start to spike again and election tension comes to a head — could make this an unusually difficult stretch. Source: Daylight saving time ends this weekend: Don’t let
