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Patti Smith - Horses (full studio version) (by Twentysixbillion)
Kind of stuck on this song.
Elvis Costello, “When It Sings” (by Iain Halliday)

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who are the secrets of living… (by ee cummings)(photo by catene)
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Aspiration: Read more, read well
Posted on January 16, 2009 | 3 CommentsI produce and ingest hearty portions of all of the major Internet food groups daily: tweets, shared items and updates on Facebook, a wide variety of blogs and news aggregators.... -
Space books that we love (for children… mostly)
Posted on November 25, 2008 | 3 CommentsOne of the nice things about having a child fixated on space is that it’s an easy obsession to feed. The discount shelves of most bookstore chains are loaded with... -
Newbery Review
Posted on August 22, 2007 | No CommentsI just wrote my first review of a John Newbery Medal-winning book, The Cat Who Went to Heaven, for The Newbery Project. Subscribe in a reader Copyright Tracy Zollinger Turner,... -
Good time to be a boy
Posted on August 5, 2007 | No CommentsI barely blinked before buying The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn & Hal Igguiden when it popped up on my recommended list at Amazon earlier this year. I hid...

