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By Charity Posted on July 8, 2018July 8, 2018

TBR List Declutter, Issue 46

Tangent: Music Theory At the park the other day, my son called to me from the swings. “Hey, Mom! What song is this? NAH-na-NAH-na-NAH-na-na-na-NAH!” “I think that’s ‘Für Elise,’” I … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 46

Categories: Books, TBR List DeclutterTags: beethoven, black sabbath, Books, Library, Music, music theory, reading, TBR
By Charity Posted on June 2, 2018

TBR List Declutter, Issue 45

Tangent: TBR Envy The other day I clicked on the profile of a Goodreads reviewer whose reviews I see with some frequency and discovered that they have more than 3,000 … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 45

Categories: Books, TBR List DeclutterTags: Books, Library, reading, TBR
By Charity Posted on May 21, 2018May 19, 2018

TBR List Declutter, Issue 44

Tangent: No tangent today. This post is all business. And I can’t think of a tangent that interests me enough to write about it. See “Visual Interest” for a tangential … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 44

Categories: Books, TBR List DeclutterTags: Books, reading, TBR
By Charity Posted on May 17, 2018May 17, 2018

TBR List Declutter, Issue 43

Tangent: Attachment Parenting My daughter is considering residential camps for this summer. She’s done day camps since she was five years old, but sleep-away camp is uncharted territory for us, … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 43

Categories: Books, TBR List DeclutterTags: Attachment parenting, Books, camp, Family Life, reading, TBR, teenagers
By Charity Posted on May 14, 2018May 9, 2018

TBR List Declutter, Issue 42

Tangent: Social Media Prune The title of this tangent is inspired by (stolen from) a recent podcast by Katy Bowman (episode #101: Social Media is (Still) Shaping Your Body), but I’ve … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 42

Categories: Books, TBR List DeclutterTags: Books, passion flower, reading, Social media, social media fast, TBR
By Charity Posted on May 9, 2018May 7, 2018

TBR List Declutter, Issue 41

Tangent: The Best Defense My cat, Owen, turned eighteen this past February. He’s starting to look like a bit bony and a little scruffy, he sleeps even more than he … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 41

Categories: Books, TBR List DeclutterTags: Books, cats, moving, reading, TBR
By Charity Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

TBR List Declutter, Issue 40

Tangent: Friends and Flatterers During lunch, my children and I have been listening to Stephen West’s “Philosophize This!” podcast. Recently we heard about Plutarch’s distinction between friends and flatterers. A … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 40

Categories: Books, TBR List DeclutterTags: Books, flattery, friends, Friendship, Plutarch, reading, TBR
By Charity Posted on May 3, 2018

TBR List Declutter, Issue 39

Tangent: Physical Education None of us had any clue what field handball was, and my children had never taken a P.E. class before, yet here we were on a sunny … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 39

Categories: Books, TBR List DeclutterTags: Books, P.E. class, parenthood, physical education, reading, TBR, teenagers
By Charity Posted on March 9, 2018March 3, 2018

TBR List Declutter, Issue 38

Tangent: On Letter-Writing For the past year, I’ve been exchanging letters with a prison inmate through the letter-writing ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Church of the Larger Fellowship. Because … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 38

Categories: Books, TBR List DeclutterTags: Books, epistolary, letter writing, postal service, reading, TBR
By Charity Posted on March 7, 2018March 1, 2018

TBR List Declutter, Issue 37

Tangent: There are no obvious invertebrates in today’s Visual Interest, so it’s safe to tell you about “Chicken Casserole.” I put “Chicken Casserole” in quotes because I always think of … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 37

Categories: Books, TBR List DeclutterTags: Books, casserole, chicken, Food, meals, reading, Recipe, TBR
By Charity Posted on March 5, 2018February 28, 2018

TBR List Declutter, Issue 36

Tangent: In León, Spain, last November, we’d just eaten a meal that included a selection of cured meats—jamón ibérico, chorizo, lechazo, morcilla, cecina. On the way back through the old … Continue reading TBR List Declutter, Issue 36

Categories: Books, TBR List DeclutterTags: Books, cured meats, Food, meals, reading, Spain, TBR
By Charity Posted on March 1, 2018February 27, 2018

Bookends: January and February 2018

We started January with a cross-country road trip, and ended February with the sale of our house in Massachusetts and are only a few days away from closing on a … Continue reading Bookends: January and February 2018

Categories: BooksTags: book review, Books, reading, YA Fiction

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