“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
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Gleanings, self-pity and solitude
From Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, by Winifred Watson: ‘ In my life,” said Miss Pettigrew, ‘ a great many unpleasant things have happened. I hope they never happen to you. I don’t think they will because you’re not afraid like me. But there’s one thing I found fatal: pitying myself. It made things…
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October Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
And thank you to dear Carol, Indiana eccentric gardener at May Dreams Gardens who had the wonderful idea of Garden Bloggers Bloom Day and generously continues to host it through the years. She and many other garden bloggers have helped me to be more aware of the beauty.
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Gleanings, and what you put in, you get out.
I decided that I need to read something funny, and the latest book I bought is by an author who is not at all funny–she’s good, but not one bit of funny. So it came to me that I had not read Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, by Winifred Watson, in some time. I do…
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Gleanings, with commentary
I set myself to read more this week, and have. When the student is ready, the teacher appears, so they say. Perhaps setting myself to read drew to me the perfect book– Jacqueline Winspear’s novel, Elegy for Eddie. It is her Maisie Dobbs series, and I’ve read them all. How I missed this one, I…
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Scant Gleanings and Appreciation for Miss Read
I realized this morning that I had not noted anything of particular interest from my past week’s reading. I think it may be because my reading was scant. That awareness right there is cause for changes for this week. I started out this morning with some reading time and came up with this: “The writer…
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Gleanings from the past week
As a new week starts, I go over a few things that struck me in my reading in the past week. These help to carry me forward ~ “Always be reading; always be writing down new ideas. Ten ideas a day.” ~ James Altucher, The Power of No. This practice helps me to be in…
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