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LIVE FROM TENANTS HARBOR, 1
I made it and all is perfect. Okay, with a glitch or two, but Scott’s rubbery legs have recovered after pulling my 350 pound wheelchair, immobile with a “brake error”, and me, and I am not a feather, up the … Continue reading
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SEE YOU IN MAINE!
YES, IT’S REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN, I think. I hope. I’ll see you on the Roseledge front porch after July 15, barring a Russian-provoked Delta computer glitch or a short-people travel ban. I’ll have the good coffee ready — Dark … Continue reading
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HELP!
No Tenants Harbor arrival date set yet, but I remain hopeful. I asked Scott Hodgkins to post a HELP WANTED notice on the bulletin boards in both the Town Office and the Post Office. Scott tonied it up a bit, … Continue reading
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REAL READERS, ARISE
Rosleedge Books’ world looks promising. Trumpdom’s not so much. Worry, worry. Think of rebutting things, uplifting things, Things that go “YES!” in the night. I can’t decide if, to a reader, living and reading are an interaction, symbiosis, or mind-meld, … Continue reading
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HIGH SUMMERs
High Summer 2016 is there which is a very good thing and Roseledge Books is hopping — okay, on Thursdays. Scott called yesterday to say that four people — almost a crowd — were there at once taking full advantage … Continue reading
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ROSELEDGE BOOKS: MATTERS OF NOTE
Quite exciting news, but only the beginning, I know. With the help of a harness, I took my first steps since December 2, 2014! Okay, I only took four steps and maybe I did do better going backwards, but a … Continue reading
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ROSELEDGE BOOKS’ ALTERED STATE
Well, Maine is a no-go this summer. I haven’t given up on my legs, though others may have, so I have started a new round of physical therapy with someone who seems creative and good and who has not ruled … Continue reading
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GO BROWSERS!
The browsers of the world have apparently — and however inadvertently — united and forced Amazon into the bricks and mortar bookstore business! Clearly, Amazon’s online search and presentation algorithms never captured what it is browsers are doing when they … Continue reading
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RECOMMEND: YES OR NO?
C. J. Box had me at the first bike ride through North Dakota’s icy, rutted, snow-covered fields at dawn. And at the cold, the really, really cold. And with the kid on his bike in the cold, witnessing a car … Continue reading
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A THANKSGIVING LITANY
Thanks for Thanksgiving, I say. Thanks for Ellen Goodman, who once wrote — as I recall — that Thanksgiving was the best holiday: good food, no gifts, and family together — for about four hours. Surely there is research to … Continue reading
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