Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo by Vanessa Woods My rating: 4 of 5 stars I nearly put this book down after the first chapter because I wanted to learn about Bonobos, not atrocities in the Congo.…
Review: Aftermath by Ann Aguirre
Aftermath by Ann Aguirre My rating: 4 of 5 stars Leave it to Aguirre to take her heroine in a direction that is apparently pissing off at least half of her readers (those who expected romance). Sirantha Jax is in fine…
Victory!
On with the quotations obsession project. I swear, it’ll be useful for something other than keeping me busy. Someday! Does anybody know PHP/MySQL well enough to help me do that? Anyway, one reason that I keep going is little successes like…
Who is/was Vascavus?
I’m still playing with my quotations database. I have a perfectly lovely item that I’d like to include, but I can’t find any information at all about the author, “Vascavus.” I’ve Googled and searched otherwise. The only place I find…
R.I.P. Randy Pausch
You remember all that buzz about “The Last Lecture” last September? I do hope you watched it—it was well worth the time. It’s still available, too. Randy Pausch, the lecturer, died yesterday. He was just 47 and leaves a wife and…
Quotations and WordPress Plugins
I love quotations, an outgrowth of my love for words and the written word in particular. I’ve collected an astonishing number of them over the years, but I never got around to doing much with them. The ones that are…
Rumbles from the Recliner
Not from the grave, oh no, not yet! It’s been too long to do a real “this is all that has happened in my life.” Writing it would exhaust me, and reading it would likely bore you. If you want to…
Quote of the Day: May Sarton
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. –May Sarton I do at least a dozen silly things every day, thanks in part to fibro fog. The sooner I let go of my anger…
Quote of the day: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. –Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi We can all have joyful lives if we choose to create them. What are you doing to create yours despite illness?
Quote of the Day, Happy Half-Hour
“We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” — Stacia Tauscher, quoted in The Change Your Life Challenge by Brooke Noel. One of Noel’s suggestions is to have a regular “happy…