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Winged Steeds, Mockingbirds and British Chieftains: Read-Aloud Thursday
It’s been awhile since I participated in a Read-Aloud Thursday, but we’re partaking of our usual eclectic reading repast around here. I’ll start with picture books and move up through the ranks in…
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Middle of a story
I’m trying out a new look here at Across the Page. This theme has an enormous banner at the top, one I can change as the mood strikes. Currently, it displays a picture…
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Getting there
I swore I wouldn’t post any more bird photos for awhile. I actually have some homeschooling posts in mind, and a couple of books I’m reading that I’d like to share. But today…
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Trailside minstrel
This morning I saw a bird that’s entirely new to me. It was alongside the trail where the girls and I went for a jog/bike ride. I think this little guy is an…
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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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Early morning bike ride
I have two very happy memories of being on a bike as a child. In the first, I was about 4 years old, sitting on my tricycle on the front sidewalk. It had…
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“Drenched, dizzied, and bedevilled”: An Experiment in Criticism
“It was bound to happen,” I thought at some points as I read An Experiment in Criticism, “a C.S. Lewis work I don’t care for. I’m kind of relieved about it, actually; I’ve…
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Seeds
We planted some lettuce, beans, and peas today. Tomorrow we’ll put in cucumber and tomato plants, and some kohlrabi, and hope for the best. It was hot — in the 90’s. In other…
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Rail Trail Sights
I’ve been going down to a local railroad-bed-turned-walking trail and jogging this spring. Sometimes the whole family goes, my husband running a little farther and faster, the girls on bikes. Sometimes I go…
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Spilling out the lego box
I have several things bouncing around in my head this morning. Here are some of them, with no connective tissue other than that they’re all bouncing on the same court. Or how about…