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Archive | April, 2006

Boo Radley

Today is Harper Lee’s birthday (thank you Rare Book Room)… and everyone has read the high school required To Kill A Mockingbird. The details of the book slowly faded from memory, except for the names of the main characters, specifically Boo Radley. The reason it stayed with me for so long was in part due [...]

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On The “Da Vinci” Phenomenon

There’s been a lot of talk about The Da Vinci Code lately. (years straight, with over 40 million copies sold (that is more than the entire population of Canada, for the record) – and that was just in its hardcover release. Now that it’s out in paperback it’s everywhere, online and off, multiplying on supermarket and drugstore shelves. I [...]

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Spring

Ah Spring (and Summer)! How we have missed you. The weather has turned pleasant (and least here on the left coast), and so naturally thoughts of being outdoors and BBQs are abundant. And part of this is getting the garden back into shape and the veggie patch underway. I never been a big fan of [...]

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A Blog That Dares Not Post Its Name

Here we are at the beginning of this little project. Let’s push things forward, shall we?

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