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Furlough Fridays
On the middle school website, parents were asked what they were doing regarding F.F. The responders all said highly educational stuff, like they weren’t letting their kids watch TV and they’re enrolling them in enrichment classes and building a rocketship to Mars.
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Book Catalog
The Putnam Summer 2010 catalog is out and my novel’s in it. Page 39, right after Clive Cussler. Now they can’t take it back! AAAHH! Putnam Summer 2010
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Make Your Own Ugly Monster Rag Doll
The whole thing took me a few hours to make. My sewing skills are in the “Wing-It” category, so if you know what you’re doing go right ahead and disregard it all. You could also obviously use a sewing machine, but I didn’t.
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Tale of the Sale
When you have dreamed about getting to this point since you were five years old, you are going to be beyond pleased. I mean, at that point, I would have added vampires and zombies if she asked me to. Well, not really. But almost.
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Ghosts of Hawaii
Ghosts, or obake, are everywhere in Hawaii. You can’t go a mile without seeing a haunted house or place. The H3 highway was said to be cursed; several people died while building it. My friend drove me through Kaimuki, a modern neighborhood near downtown, and pointed out several haunted houses on the street where she…
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The Wild Ones
I have a lot of hair. By a lot, I mean that every time I go to a hairdresser– even the same one I’ve been going to for years– he or she remarks, “You have more hair than anyone I’ve ever seen!” The floor is covered in what looks like reproducing Tribbles.
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Secret Beaches of Oahu
There’s more to Oahu than Waikiki. We’ve been slowly discovering some lesser-used beaches. A hiking path near the lighthouse (not sure of the name, but it faces Sea Life Park and Waimanalo) forks into three roads. One goes up, two go down. We took one that went down. Here we followed a trail for perhaps…
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Book Cover
Here is the final book cover: This book cover was, I think, used for the catalog, but is now no more.
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Why I’m Afraid of Reading
Which leads me to my next thought: “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” Anne Herbert, THE NEXT WHOLE EARTH CATALOG: ACCESS TO TOOLS ed. Stewart Brand (1980).
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My Starbucks Moment
The other little item that happened was a woman in front of me ordered some sort of foamy complex drink with nonfat milk. I thought she must be watching her calories. I felt a bit scrutinized when I took the lid off my coffee and poured in my cream in front of her. Then she…
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