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Maisie Dobbs

Friday, February 3rd, 2012 by 

I first met her a number of years ago when I was recovering from a bit of surgery and a friend lent me the first book (and only book, then) by Jacqueline Winspear about Maisie Dobbs. I ripped through it, as I do with most novels, but Masie stuck with me, and we’ve now stuck it out together through eight books. Why?

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Facebook vs. Twitter

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 by 

How can Twitter be so cool if all I do is write Facebook statuses on it? Click here to read more of Jake’s Twitter revelation,.

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I Need A Recess

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 by 

Who decided between 6th and 7th grade I didn’t deserve a recess anymore? I motion that the new cutoff should be as soon as you get your high school diploma. Up until then, each and every high school kid gets a 45-minute recess. I would happily give up a study hall for a 45-minute recess, who wouldn’t?

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Something New

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 by 

You know that feeling that you get when you receive something you really want or have been waiting for, for a really long time? Well just recently I had that experience….

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One Thousand

Monday, January 23rd, 2012 by 

One thousand can either be a lot or a little. It’s a little when you’re burning through Chuck E. Cheese’s game tokens at a fourth grade birthday party and have to share those tokens with a hundred other kids. But this Christmas, a thousand seemed like an endless number.

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Recycling Made Simple

Friday, January 20th, 2012 by 

I am now the proud owner of a new recycling tote from Woodward’s Disposal Service. Our old tub was 18 gallons. This new baby is 96 gallons of recycling space and I intend to fill it up!

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Communication Technology

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 by 

An interesting topic was brought up last week in English class. To start off class my English teacher, Mrs. Marker, had each of us write a paragraph based on the idea that recent advancements in communication technologies like Facebook, Twitter, smart phones, and Skype are slowly killing human social life. It was meant to be a persuasive paragraph on whether I thought these advancements were good or bad for the future of human interaction.

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Desk-ology

Friday, January 13th, 2012 by 

Remember that bill that didn’t get paid because you never received it? What about the gift magazine subscription that ran out because you didn’t receive a renewal notice or the important newspaper clipping that disappeared into thin air? The key to reclaiming sanity about lost objects turns out, for me, to be a desk-cleaning frenzy.

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