Monthly Archives: February 2017

Birds of a feather.

Posted on February 25, 2017 by polloplayer

Just when I was thinking that I might not have the best husband in the world. (Background: he is balking at recovering some twenty-year-old furniture. Some chairs that are tattered to ribbons. Shredded from age and shedding their nether parts every … Continue reading →

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Buckets and buckets and buckets!

Posted on February 18, 2017 by polloplayer

Just when it seems your prayers are never heard, the skies just open up and the benisons pour out. Yesterday it was a torrent, a deluge of blessings to soothe our long California drought. It rained. Oh how it rained! … Continue reading →

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Shelf Life: Reading Retrospective, Finale.

Posted on February 11, 2017 by polloplayer

That sound? Sometimes it ticks and tocks, sometimes it whooshes. It was another year, flown by, and me no closer to my goal of reading EVERYTHING. I am as guilty as anyone of reading fluff, ephemera, and the National Enquirer … Continue reading →

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Shelf Life: Reading Retrospective, Part 5

Posted on February 4, 2017 by polloplayer

Nothing good can come from trying to read in a car. And I have the queasy memories to prove it. Among them, “I’m hot, Mom”, moaned my then seven-year-old son, who had surreptitiously hauled a stack of books into the … Continue reading →

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