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Poetry Friday: The great things
My brain is worried and tired. I pick up the encyclopedia, The volume GIC to HAR, It seems I have read everything in it, So many other nights like this. I sit staring…
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What’s On Your Nightstand: May 2011
5 Minutes for Books hosts this monthly opportunity to consider what you’ve read over the last month, or what you’re anticipating over the next month. Since the last Nightstand, here’s what I’ve read:…
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Lovely, dark and deep
Actually, the woods my daughters and I walked through yesterday were anything but dark. The sun was so bright I could hardly even see this robin in the trees above, much less determine…
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Math Read-Alouds
Carol wrote recently about String, Straight-Edge, and Shadow: The Story of Geometry and the idea of a story about a mathematical concept seemed like a great idea. We’re mostly book geeks around here,…
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What’s On Your Nightstand: April 2011
I almost forgot about this month’s Nightstand carnival over at 5 Minutes for Books. I like to participate, to see what others are reading and to take stock of my own mental furniture…
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Poetry Friday: Land of Counterpane
My youngest is sick today. This means missing our last homeschool co-op of the year, a birthday party this afternoon, and possibly Presentation Day tomorrow. She has a knack for falling ill on…
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Ten Books I HAD to Have… Still Sitting on my Shelf
I’ve seen posts on this at Reading to Know and Magistra Mater, and I’ve been bracing for this little exercise in literary self-flagellation. Though the list could go on much longer then ten…
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On the Nightstand, March 2011
It’s that time again — the What’s On Your Nightstand carnival at 5 Minutes for Books, where we’re invited to share what we’ve been reading, or what we plan to read. Click the…
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Poetry Friday: Finishing Well
One never knows, but I’ve been thinking lately that I’m probably about halfway through my life. Maybe a little over. What do I have to show for it? I look back over my…
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First Encounters with Homer
We’ve been revisiting a read-aloud from a few years back: Rosemary Sutcliff’s Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad. I reviewed this book when my now-4th-grader was in first grade, and I…