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New life stirring on the Shelf

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on February 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »

So, I recently hinted that some version of my old work blog, Shelf Life, might be rising from the ashes. Well, last night it did. I’ve started reporting on all things local and literary at a new online home. It’d be marvelous if you’d check it out, early and often, for news about Central New York books being published or reviewed, [...]

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Perhaps dusting off the shelf

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »

For more than three years, I reported on – and mused about — the local literary community here in town, on a blog associated with my former employer’s Web site. Despite a heavy workload that seemed to increase in heft every day, I never resented the time-consuming responsibility of keeping the blog up and running. It soon became [...]

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Tick tock tick tock

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on December 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I think maybe I need to read some bad writing. For several weeks, I’ve been slowly consuming Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs. The pace is by no means a commentary on the quality of the book. A lit class has monopolized some of my reading time, and my own glacial speed takes care of the [...]

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Ascendio

Posted in health update, tagged , , on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For my Facebook status, I just posted that I was slowly ascending to a comfortable cruising altitude. And that seems about right. On mornings like this one, after my weekly Avonex shot, I always find myself crawling up and out of a cocoon of my own making, thanks to the one-two punch of the injection’s side effects and [...]

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Half-hearted reception for “Half-Blood Prince”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on July 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »

… what makes “The Half-Blood Prince” such a powerful read is the way in which it pulls the rug out from under us, as readers. It wrenches away our security blankets. We shudder (at least I did) as evil seeps slams into the Muggle world. Murders, bridge collapses, disappearances. And a pervasive, ominous mist hangs in the air. …

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Still wild about Harry

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on July 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’m a 40-year-old woman who has no business being ridiculously excited about the release of a PG-rated movie. Make that Riddickulus-ly excited. That’s right: Butterflies have been slamming against the inner walls of my belly for a few days now, (sort of like those winged keys that zoomed after a certain 11-year-old boy in Book 1). And the feeling intensifies [...]

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Adjusting the knob

Posted in career transition, tagged , , on July 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Remember, a zillion years ago, when a TV signal was drawn into your home by a flimsy pair of rabbit ears?  Sometimes the picture would be all staticky snow, and you’d have to fine-tune it by swiveling the antennae around or adjusting the vertical hold knob on the set? Well, I’ve been fiddling with my figurative knob for nearly a [...]

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