in the trenches

4/365: Rehearsal after school

nobody@vox.com(Hillary) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:04:06 -0800

4/365: Rehearsal after school Originally uploaded by smokymtnkayaker It was our first day back to school today and I had rehearsal with the drama club for One Act District Competitions in 3 weeks. It was the first time with the accompanis...

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3/365: Organised Bookshelf

nobody@vox.com(Hillary) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:03:50 -0800

3/365 Originally uploaded by smokymtnkayaker I am a bibliophile of the highest order. Each is a prize; a physical manifestation of something I have seen, learned, questioned, etc. And they are a mess. I don't know how many I have, but I...

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2/365: Go USF!!

nobody@vox.com(Hillary) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:21:23 -0800

2/365 Originally uploaded by smokymtnkayaker Went to a friend's house to watch the USF v NIU game. What a disaster. We won, but, I would hardly claim it we played so poorly. Russell, here, napped for the frst half of the game (he just got...

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The Twelve Little Cakes - Dominika Dery

nobody@vox.com(Hillary) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:57:35 -0800

This memoir written by Dominika Dery about her early years growing up in communist Czechoslovakia in the late 1970’s and early ‘80’s. I enjoyed her story immensely, but not in any truly personal way. She begins her story with her own birth, sl...

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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation - Joseph J. Ellis

nobody@vox.com(Hillary) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:55:35 -0800

This won the Pulitzer back in 2001 in the History category. I was reading it on the steps to my office building during lunch breaks and a gentleman who asked me what I was reading mentioned that he didn't read Ellis anymore because of "the whole ...

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On Mystic Lake - Kristin Hannah

nobody@vox.com(Hillary) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:54:08 -0800

My first book by this author, and it certainly won't be the last. This heart-warming, though sometimes heart-breaking story starts with Annie Colwater sending her daughter Natalie to London for an exchange program between high school and college...

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Sisters, Ink - Rebeca Seitz

nobody@vox.com(Hillary) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:53:03 -0800

This was a simple story, but I think that's part of what made it so grand. This first in a series of the same name, it features Tandy Ann Sinclair, one of four girls her adopted parents took in. I like the premise of four girls, each a differen...

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The Late Bloomer's Revolution - Amy Cohen

nobody@vox.com(Hillary) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:51:25 -0800

I picked this book up as an impulse buy at Border's from one of those themed tables they had set up for New Year Resolutions that no one ever keeps. As a book written by a thirty-something woman on a quest for marriage and happiness and doubting...

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Annie on my Mind - Nancy Garden

nobody@vox.com(Hillary) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:48:01 -0800

I tried to go through Annie on My Mind to find quotes that had moved me or made me think, but I couldn’t find many. It’s not that the book wasn’t a great one or that nothing important happened, but I couldn’t separate the words from the events...

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1/365: Happy New Year!

nobody@vox.com(Hillary) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:42:29 -0800

1/365 Originally uploaded by smokymtnkayaker Thought I was supposed to be heading out to a football game get-together today, but it turns out I was just over-eager. Got all the way down there to discover she's still in Georgia and it's no...

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