Monthly Archive: May, 2008

Flotsam

My very first Wordless Wednesday!   I’ve long thought that the popular Wordless Wednesday observed by quite a number of quality blogs was a great idea, but since this site is tightly focused on… Read More

Punching In

Several years ago I read Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, an expose on just how badly low level employees of major companies are treated and an examination of just how challenging it is… Read More

Not Quite What I Was Planning

Awhile back I was tagged with the Six Word Memoir meme and I wish at the time I had had this just recently release trade paperback from the editors of Smith Magazine.   Subtitled … Read More

Reader Request–Gadget Nation

Thank you to  blog reader PB for suggesting today’s title.  Steve Greenberg’s Gadget Nation is a lavishly illustrated over-sized hard cover filled with two page spreads about hundreds of inventions and the inventors… Read More

Word Fugitives

In attempting to write this review of Barbara Wallraff’s  Word Fugitives, a book about finding or coining words needed to convey concepts not defined by a known or existing word, I found myself… Read More

1080 Recipes

I have a number of cookbooks on hand and was intending to do another Cookbook Roundup to round off the week on Friday.   But after spending some time with 1080 Recipes I realized… Read More

When The Light Goes

I’ve long been a huge Larry McMurtry fan.   While I don’t care for the Western genre and was never able to get into Lonesome Dove or any of his other westerns, I have… Read More

Perfect (ly Hideous) Neutrals

Lately Ron and I have become regular viewers of a show on HGTV where two rather pompous designers visit with the owners of homes that have been on the market for awhile and… Read More

Ninety-three bellies from A to Y with bonus letter Z!

Happy Tuesday!   Time for an Easy books round up.   Remember you can click on any book cover to place a request for it with Your local library or click on any book title… Read More

Gotcha Capitalism

If you’ve ever felt royally ripped off by a big company chances are Bob Sullivan has some useful advice.   Gotcha Capitalism chronicles the ways that big corporations from hotel chains and airlines to… Read More

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