“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for every dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”

— Stephen King

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Another Spin Around the Sun

Today marks another spin around the sun for me. You would think after as many as I have had this would be old hat, but I still feel something at the sight of my birthday. Nostalgia, longing, a sense of hope maybe? Surely some sense of loss at the years that have passed. Birthdays are…

Spring has begun and I keep trucking along.

The last full week of March brings in more Spring weather and the end of my Intro to Lit class. This also gives me a week’s vacation from school to decompress a bit. Not the day job though, still have to show up there daily. But it will be nice to be able to breathe…

Is Winter Over Yet?

It’s been another month in, another class completed, and I sit here in awe of it all. How has February gone by so quickly when January seemed to drag on into the abyss? Thinking back, with so much to do, it was no wonder the month flew by. Finishing another general education class for school…