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Poetry Friday & “Exhortation to a bee” by Tabatha Yeatts

It’s Poetry Friday! Catherine at Reading to the Core is hosting! Just as the bees are wringing the last nectar…

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FOLP #5: Being Dead is No Excuse — The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral, by Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, copyright 2005

I read this humorous, recipe-filled guide about a month before we dealt with two family deaths within 36 hours. Not…

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How Full is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton

This year for my job, I set a goal of reading one book each quarter related to leadership, development, assertiveness,…

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Poetry Friday & A Narrow Escape

It’s Poetry Friday! My friend and Head Swapeuse Tabatha is hosting at The Opposite of Indifference. Today I’m sharing a…

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FOLP #4: The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch

If you need a bit of inspiration or encouragement coupled with a kick in the pants, The Last Lecture by…

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Poetry Friday: Welcome to the Farm!

Welcome, friends! It’s Poetry Friday and I’m honored to be your host today! Best of all, my sister and nephews…

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FOLP #3: Brave Companions, by David McCullough, copyright 1992

“I feel sorry for anyone who misses the experience of history, the horizons of history. We think little of those…

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Poetry Friday & Carol’s Gift from the Sea

It’s Poetry Friday & Margaret is hosting at Reflections on the Teche! This week I’m sharing the treasures Carol sent…

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FOLP: Financial Peace Revisited by Dave Ramsey, copyright 2003

I finished my second “Friends of the Library Project” book June 28. It would be easy to say a lot…

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Poetry Friday, a garden haiku, and EGGS!!

It’s Poetry Friday! My dear puzzle-poem-pal Donna at Mainely Write is hosting today! My apologies for all photo size strangeness….

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