"I like reading place names on maps. It's almost as fun as reading the dictionary!"
Me, to my mom (a discovery I made whilst being the navigator during a car trip)

Have I mentioned lately how much the library rocks? This week I found a Shel Silverstein CD! It has him performing some of his poems and also bands performing his songs. Did you know he wrote "A Boy Named Sue"? Or "Cover of the Rolling Stone"? Me neither! Plus, according to the liner notes he was best buddies with Hugh Hefner and contributed lots ( Read more... )

I was up at my grandfather's today (I go 3 days a week to look after him) and he told me someone had given him a large container of cherries and he didn't know what to do with them. His appetite's not very good so he wouldn't get through very many before they spoiled; after lunch I sat down to leaf through some of his cookbooks to find a good ( Read more... )