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SAT Practice Questions — 30 Years Later
Decades after the test, how would you do taking SAT Practice Questions? My son took the SAT the other day. He’s only in Seventh Grade, but he took it for…
BOOK REVIEW: Jane Austen in Boca
BOOK REVIEW: Jane Austen in Boca: A Novel The premise of this book, written by Paula Marantz Cohen, can best be summed up this way: what if Jane Austen’s Bennett…
Book ‘Em, Danno
I’m afraid to go back to the library. I love the library. Any place that is hushed and full of books is by definition magical. I’m jealous of the…
Book Review: Let’s Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Book Review: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Jenny Lawson’s brain does not work like most of ours, or at least not like the people I run into…
Book Review: The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
I read “Sutton” by J.R. Moehringer a while back. It was one of those books that just showed up in my house one day and knocked around until I read…
Pinterest: do you love it or hate it? On the one hand. I don’t really like Pinterest very much. It is full of recipe and craft ideas that seem specifically…
The Death of Southern Gentlemen
Seven million years ago, when I was learning how to drive, I asked my father how to check the oil in my car. Checking the oil was something I’d seen…
Johannes Cabal The Necromancer, by Jonathan L. Howard
BOOK REVIEW: Johannes Cabal The Necromancer, by Jonathan L. Howard The Necromancer is a book like no other. It sort of defies description. It has elements of Faust, and Neil…
The Flood
We had been shopping at the Outlet Mall earlier in the day, and my unsupervised husband, Mike, found himself alone in American Eagle ™. Apparently he forgot that he is…
I Forgot
I tried to slip one of my daughter’s teachers a twenty dollar bill the other day, but she wouldn’t take it. I think she just felt hinky taking unexpected cash…
