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Books and Bowel Movements
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This is a blog about family life filled with poopy conversations, a cat with an ego named Jasper, a curly haired mermaid, and books.
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Lesson 3: She is forever pursued by a host of vague adjectives ‘proper,’ ‘correct,’ ‘genteel,’ whic...

Warning: This blog involves a pro/con list. I also want to say that I do recommend this book because I could never not recommend Gemmell. She’s done too much for me with her cheeky interviews, ...

1 day ago

Newsday Tuesday

Favorite Tweets: Favorite Search Terms: If I wanted the government in my womb: I’d suck down the whole thing, all three branches; judicial, executive, legislative. (See I listened in High Schoo...

3 days ago

Project 365 | Week 21

Sorry I’m a day late. Vacation without wi-fi is a wonderful thing. This is my week in instagram: My Week in Instagram There’s the squirrel-body pen holder to sign up for a concealed carry...

4 days ago

When Women Were Birds (A murder of crows)

Dear God, if I never read this book, I would have been at a loss. I am completely, utterly, every whimsical note of my body, indebted to Terry Tempest Williams for everything she put on that blank pa...

23 may 12

Newsday Tuesday

Favorite Tweets: My nephew’s name is Jackson Wolf A. Favorite Search Terms empty schoolyard: flat basketballs, dust bunnies, tennis shoes hanging from electric wires by their perfectly bowed la...

22 may 12

Project 365 | Week 20

Day 134: A Monday Day 134 | My Sweet Linus. Jack the Wolf can be really cute. Other times he tells my mother her dingle can’t move like his. In these moments, he pees onto the toilet seat and l...

21 may 12

Let’s CHAP [stick][s][eau][e rone][el] BOOK

I’m not even sure I like this blog. Read at your own risk: I love poetry chapbooks because they fit into the back pocket of my jeans even with the stretch denim. (All ladies know how hard it is...

16 may 12

Newsday Tuesday

Favorite Tweets: Favorite Search Terms: attractiveness for a book: I’m looking for a perfectly bound man with a leather spine. If you have gold paned edges and words that are in perfect Georgia...

15 may 12

Project 365 | Week 19

Another week, another wash load of photos: Day 126: A Sunday Day 126 | I’m becoming my Mother I found this magnet, and I quite enjoyed it, and then I decided I could make it myself, and I haven...

13 may 12

The Air We Breathe

Tea Art | Ginger Pear I don’t know how I muscled through this, how my eyes in the dark continuously focused on these words that weren’t beautiful, or even at all interesting. I managed to...

10 may 12

Holy Mother of Books

I do gift guides for the big holidays so, why not celebrate the women who made us bookish, and passed on words to the next generation? Yes, you’re right, it’s time for the Mother of All B...

09 may 12

Newsday Tuesday

Favorite Tweets: Favorite Search Terms: bfg roald dahl monopoly: WHAT! WHERE! Would the pieces be “BoneCruncher,” GizzardGulper,” and MeatDripper.” And what about the places: ...

08 may 12

Project 365 | Week 18

This first photo is actually a video. The video below is Taylor Mali who was an educator and was asked at a party “What he makes?” from a lawyer. He didn’t have the wit to answer in...

07 may 12

84, Charing Cross Road | The story that successfully uses a comma in the title.

“you leave me sitting here writing long margin notes in library books that don’t belong to me, some day they’ll find out i did it and take my library card away.” Thanks, Katie...

05 may 12

Newsday Tuesday

Favorite Tweets: I just love this question because it’s a good one. We all keep books on our nightstand (or in my case the poor-girls book basket by the bed) or on our bookshelves in our rooms,...

01 may 12

Project 365 | Week 17

And we’re back. Still sickly, but didn’t stop my mother from making photos of us with the self-timer. Day 112 | Do you know why a raven is like a writing desk? I’ve been drinking a ...

30 apr 12

When in Doubt. Be Bookish.

My Workspace | Infested So, I had a bad night. It may be due to the picture to your left where tissues are crowding my mug of raspberry tea and my Downy napkin poetry. I’ve been sick with a col...

28 apr 12

Arcadia | Ex Umbra En Solem

Halfway through Arcadia by Lauren Groff I had this to say: At the point in the story that I said that – Bit is a teenage boy who teaches me that George Eliot is actually a British WOMAN writer ...

26 apr 12

Newsday Tuesday (& An EXCITING Q&A)

Favorite Tweets: This is sarcasm: Favorite Search Terms: what did people eat in uk circa 1800: Beans. spanking themes in young adult literature: You got my blog? That freaks me out a little, a lot. ...

24 apr 12

Project 365 | Week 16

It’s week 16 and I’m going to do more than just show my week in photos (we all know it’s about my cat anyway). My best friend is this amazing photographer who has spent her life in ...

22 apr 12

“Cinderelly, Cinderelly, Got No Time to Dilly-Dally.”

Lunar Chronicles 0.5 - Illustration by Goni Montes Who knew? Who knew I would be this deliciously into cyborgs and hover crafts? The girl doesn’t even have a glass slipper, but instead a robo...

19 apr 12

Newsday Tuesday

UPDATE: TODAY ONLY ON AMAZON the author of TOUCHBACK (now a major motion picture) is having a FREE DAY for the book he wrote based on the movie. BUY IT HERE. If anyone is interested. Let me know t...

17 apr 12

“…No More a Boy than a Fish with Wings.” – Kate Walbert

The Gardens of Kyoto - Kate Walbert Swoon. Sigh. Let me dust my cheek with my handkerchief and lean my palm against my chin. My elbow against this balcony. My eyes against the green stems of the ...

16 apr 12

My Story of Hope in Philadelphia

To get the full effect of this blog you have to listen to some Sleepy John Estes -”The Girl I Love has Long Curly Hair.” Once you have that in the background, commence reading. I heard ...

14 apr 12

Newsday Tuesday:

Click this photo to go to my nominee page I have some fun things to share for April 10th. First, go without shoes tomorrow for TOMS’ One Day Without Shoes. They can say it better than me so c...

10 apr 12

Project 365 | Week 14

I may have to post this a day early. Anyway it’s a Friday night, so guess who is a blog loser. Happy Holiday’s Today and this week! Remember this week I’ll be in Philly — ru...

08 apr 12

A Short History of Women | Rant

Sometimes you read books that don’t have a conclusion but they tell you something about the world. A lot of bloggers have said “this story has no point” and while it has no points p...

04 apr 12

Newsday Tuesday

This month I will be featuring a lot more poetry news since it’s National Poetry Month. Favorite Tweets: Favorite Search Terms: sylvia plath – spinster: She never made it to spinsterhood...

03 apr 12

Project 365 | Week 13

I spent the week at this beach. There could be a million pictures of people cuddled together from my family and inner circle, however I’m trying to spare you guys the gush. Here goes. Day 84 |...

01 apr 12

Two Sisters | Three Ladies

Two Sisters Bookery Book Quote I’ve been in Wilmington this week with my family and of course we had to check out all the local bookish haunts. I’ve been to Two Sisters Bookery before, b...

31 mar 12

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