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March 01, 2007 06:08 AM EST -- Tonight we watched The Phantom of the Opera (2004). I thought Bob (my boyfriend) and Aaron (my son) were going to wilt and perish from all the chick-flicky stuff and the opera music. But they managed to . . . more
January 14, 2007 04:35 AM EST -- I recently finished reading Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck. Though I'd read many of his novels and short stories, this was the first time I'd read any non-fiction by him, and I was pleasantly . . . more
August 25, 2007 02:12 AM EDT -- It started as a tear-jerker. A little boy, about age ten, was thinking something like, "Why do I have to die?" He has a brain tumor. He also has an insatiable fascination with insects, especially . . . more
February 10, 2007 01:29 PM EST -- Alan L. Schwartz was a CPS investigator who worked for many years with families on an Indian reservation. His experiences led him to write Protecting Children From Child Protective Services (2004) when . . . more
September 07, 2007 03:21 AM EDT -- Cusi, a precocious child of the ancient Inca culture, had a strange upbringing. His guardian, an old man named Chuto, was a llama herder living in the Andes mountain range near Cuzco, Peru. At the beginning . . . more
February 20, 2007 03:00 AM EST -- “The greater our love, the deeper will be its influence on society.”                                                         . . . more
January 30, 2007 04:12 AM EST -- Forty years ago, when I was in tenth grade at De Anza High School in Richmond, California, I was assigned this book in my English class. Well, I've finally finished reading it as of this week. I remember . . . more
February 12, 2007 03:48 AM EST -- My boyfriend has been reading consciousness-raising message boards lately and found a few references to a DVD we hadn't seen, The Illuminated Chakras: A Visionary Voyage Into Your Inner World, produced . . . more
February 25, 2007 01:49 AM EST -- Quantum Touch - The Power To Heal teaches the simple method of Quantum Touch hands-on healing. After only fifty-five pages, the reader is ready to try his first session. That's how fast it can happen, . . . more
January 30, 2007 02:30 AM EST -- For the last three years I've had The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath on my TBR (to be read) list. Recently when I saw an audio version on CDs, unabridged, I couldn't resist. I borrowed it from my library . . . more
January 25, 2007 12:59 PM EST -- Al Capone Does My Shirts was chosen as a Newbery Honor Book in 2005, and also won many other awards. The author, Gennifer Choldenko, was especially pleased to win the Schneider Family Book Award which . . . more
February 10, 2007 08:04 PM EST --   Every person naturally wants to become all that they are capable of becoming. This desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to become all that . . . more
August 26, 2007 04:05 PM EDT -- Last night we watched Into The West, a 1993 film about two gypsy children in contemporary Ireland. Their mother died seven years before, which caused their father to fall apart; he gave up his station . . . more
DVD Review: Snap Decision
by Linda M.
views: 22 | rating: 9.5 | comments: 5
February 23, 2007 10:59 PM EST -- Snap Decision, a movie based on a true story, was released in 2001. Tonight I saw it for the first time on DVD. It was about a widowed mother of three, Jen, whose best friend, Carrie, arrived for an overnight . . . more
 
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