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The Art of ASKing

The Art of ASKing

or How I learned to stop worrying and let people help by Amanda Palmer I knew I wanted to read this book because of her TED talk, plus all I heard about this book, and some of her interviews. And, of course, because of her husband, Neil Gamian; I have a fan crush on him. […]

April Reading

April Reading

It’s hard to believe that it is May.  April went by in a whirl of taxes and garden prep. (http://crystalclarion.wordpress.com/ my Good Life blog) That Summer in Paris: memories of tangled friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and some others by Morley Callaghan.  Makes you wonder where the new Paris is and who the new intelligentsia are. […]

March Reading

March Reading

Coastliners: a novel by Joanne Harris.  Another of the Gretchin Rubin happy novels.  This one at least has a happy ending. The Sentamentalists: a novel by Johanna Skibsrud.  Published here in Kentville at Gaspereau Press and winner of the Giller Prize.  I didn’t get all of it, but I still enjoyed it. How to Be […]

February Reading

February Reading

At Home: a short history of private life by Bill Bryson.  An interesting exploration of home mostly in England and some in the US with riffs about historical bits – inventors, disease and governments.   Spies: a novel by Michael Frayn.  I enjoyed it, but didn’t think it was a happy novel.  Another of his […]

Health

Health

  health creative Originally uploaded by Derek Johnson | www.drjphoto.com Health So I contracted pneumonia. The reality is that I wasn’t perfect one day then sick the next. I was worn out in early October, then got a cold that developed into a cough. I slowed down a little, hoping to shake it. I had […]