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Paula’s 2023 Year in Books
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A letter to M.E. on her 18th birthday.
Dear M.E.,
My second year in college, I couldn’t afford to go home for Christmas. It was bleak. Poverty is only good in retrospect. My dorm closed for winter break. I hid in my room, no lights, no music, no TV. The thermostat was just above freezing. I slept in mittens, cap and coat and could see my breath. Worse, school wasn’t going well. I’d changed majors two or three times and still didn’t have Read more of this blog post »
My second year in college, I couldn’t afford to go home for Christmas. It was bleak. Poverty is only good in retrospect. My dorm closed for winter break. I hid in my room, no lights, no music, no TV. The thermostat was just above freezing. I slept in mittens, cap and coat and could see my breath. Worse, school wasn’t going well. I’d changed majors two or three times and still didn’t have Read more of this blog post »
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I was sitting at a small seaside cafe in Mykonos. The wind was hot and dry. The sun so blinding bright I felt stoned. I was gazing at the old windmills in the distance slowly turning round and round, much like my life, when I sensed the child. Black
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“Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind.”
― If I Were a Man, I'd Marry Me
― If I Were a Man, I'd Marry Me
“A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell is the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection..”
― The Wilde Women
― The Wilde Women
“History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.”
― The Rock Orchard
― The Rock Orchard
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The Reading Chall...:
Humour (April 2014) - What are you reading?
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The Seasonal Read...:
Fall Challenge 2015: Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE POSTS)
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3267 | 589 | Nov 30, 2015 09:01PM | |
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Crazy Challenge C...:
Scrabble, anyone?
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Crazy Challenge C...:
The Funny Pages
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| Crazy Challenge C...: OPI at the Movies | 753 | 274 | Mar 08, 2021 10:32AM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: Our Furry (And Feathered) Friends | 771 | 280 | Feb 06, 2023 05:21PM |
“Politics is like a grandfather clock. The pendulum swings left, the pendulum swings right and every so often a cuckoo pops out.”
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“Old lovers are like socks. They always show up full of static cling and missing their mate.”
― If I Were a Man, I'd Marry Me
― If I Were a Man, I'd Marry Me
“As God is my witness, as God is my witness they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again. - Scarlett”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“Do you know how they make the strongest sword? They hammer it flat then hold it to the fire.”
― The Rock Orchard
― The Rock Orchard
“If you don't know where you're going, you're never going to get there.”
― If I Were a Man, I'd Marry Me
― If I Were a Man, I'd Marry Me
