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[I'm downstairs doing laundry, Mike's at the store.  Phone rings.]
Me: (yelling) “Don’t answer that, let the answering machine get it.”
[little footsteps running... phone rings three times. answering machine goes off. Mary picks up phone. conversation captured on speaker.]
Mary: “Hello. Who are you?”
Person: “This is Central Blood Bank. May I speak to Mike Connell?”
Mary: “This is [...]

Took a break from reading for a while, trying to get a groove with a new job and two kids, but just got back to it with “Blindness”.  What a book.  No spoilers here, but it is so well-written and makes me believe this is exactly how society will break down if such an epidemic [...]

and I’d have had a better start by now.  By that I mean, reading is cool. However, I have this tendency to fall in love with a person’s work (actor, designer, writer, artist, etc.), which I then have to experience in its entirety, then search them endlessly on the web.  Example, after seeing Daniel Day [...]

It has been two weeks since I finished Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and I still can’t stop thinking about it.  My husband and I both read this book and interpreted different meanings from the ending.  I am haunted by this book.  Don’t get me wrong, I loved it, but it scared me. Naturally, I kept [...]