So far I have successfully avoided Walmart. I had to change pharmacies, but it wasn't much trouble.  I found one closer to my house that only takes ten minutes to fill a prescription. Also, I've only gotten one plastic bag this month.

I'm nearly done with little girl's quilt. I was about to have a fit when I had to take down my sewing table to make ( Read more... )

 I was glancing at the back of the book I got yesterday and one of the reviews was by "Dennis Covington, author of the National Book Award finalist Salvation on Sand Mountain." I thought, "Sand Mountain...Oh, no, please not our Sand Mountain."  Sand Mountain is like Chattanooga's crazy aunt. We like to pretend like it's not there and we certainly ( Read more... )

I've got a killer headache, so this might come out a bit jumbled.

I want to note the books I read this year. I just finished Stardust by Neil Gaiman. Another Christmas present from PA. He knows what I like.

I picked up The World Without Us by Alan Weisman from the library today. I've been wanting to read it for a while and now I have seven days to ( Read more... )

This week, little man learned to ride his bike! I'm so proud! He looks so cute pedaling down the lane. :)

On the other hand, little girl has been able to climb out of her crib for a long time, but she just realized it yesterday.  Cue the mad dash to the mattress store to get her a real bed. It ended up being higher than we expected, so we put a ( Read more... )

 I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. We sure did. Unfortunately, we followed it up with an awful sickness that swept through the family.  I had it Friday; aches and chills and begging the kids not to tear the house down until their daddy got home. Today, I felt better but my poor little boy dragged himself from bed to couch and back again all ( Read more... )

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I'm in the midst of an American Masterpieces course and was reading about Melville.  Referring to his third book: "Mardi is, in fact, almost unreadable, except for a rarely dedicated lover of antiquarian literary, philosophical, metaphysical, and political hodgepodge--the sort of eccentric scholar who loves Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Browne ( Read more... )

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