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Steal This Book: How a Librarian Helped a Book Thief Become a Judge

Retired Arkansas judge and civil rights movement veteran Judge Olly Neal tells a heartwarming story on Storycorps about how a high school librarian helped him succeed in life. Listen to Judge Neal’s story Just imagine, we have no idea how much a small, anonymous kindness may impact someone else’s life in a positive way. When [...]

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis Book Review

Time travel to Victorian times, subtle humor, a gentle love story, a cat that is crucial to the fate of the universe, an overbearing busybody, homage to a great comic writer with a rowboat trip down the Thames, a search through time for a mysterious object called “the Bishop’s bird stump,” and a happy ending–how [...]

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade

When life throws bad things at you that are beyond your control, how do you reach some kind of acceptance? This is a question I am still pondering regarding my recently diagnosed chronic illness. I found some excellent insight in the book Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl. All quotations are from the [...]

Low Carb Sparkling Lemonade

One of my current frustrations is that my health issues mandate that I follow a low carb diet. This means I must learn to live without any of my favorite foods, including anything made with sugar, flour, grain or starch. I also need to avoid chemicals and processed foods, including most restaurant and packaged foods. [...]

Train Your Cat to Clean Your House

For anybody who needs a lift today, here is an adorable video I found on YouTube, of a pile of kittens riding a Roomba vacuum, edited by another YouTube user to add the accompaniment of a Beethoven symphony. Now if only I had a robotic maid to clean my house for me. Or maybe I [...]

Doomsday Thinking? Try Dreamsday Thinking Instead

How often do you indulge in doomsday thinking? I’m sure you know how this works. You get a lower grade on a test than you were expecting, such as a C instead of an A, and suddenly the realization dawns on you that you are stupid. In fact, you have been stupid all along and [...]

Be the Pig of Happiness

This is so cute, I had to share. Be the Pig of Happiness, learn to dance in the rain, and leak happiness onto all your friends. Watch the animated YouTube video from Edward Monkton below. Perhaps this pig seems a wee bit manic, but I couldn’t resist smiling at him anyway, so he is actually [...]

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Series Book Review

Outlander (U.S. title, also published as Cross-Stitch in the U.K.), has stayed firmly at the top of my list of favorite books of all time for the last several years. Actually, I include Gabaldon’s entire Outlander series in that category, but if you have never yet had the pleasure of losing yourself in these books, [...]

Clowning Around Your Embarrassing Moments

Have you ever had one of those days where you’ve just run errands at the bank, the post office and the gas station on your way to work, and by then you were running late and had trouble finding a parking place, so you dashed into work just in time for a staff meeting, only [...]

Are Women Less Happy Than Men? part 2

Read Are Women Less Happy Than Men? part 1 here. Last week I introduced a study that claims that women on average are becoming progressively less happy over time, and are less happy than men. Here are links to other sites that have commented on that study and its results. Please chime in with your [...]