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Reading List: Schools of Magic

Beyond Hogwarts I don’t know about you, but I was pretty sure as a kid that I had some latent but definitely mighty magical power, and as soon as it manifested — which would be any minute now — some enchanted creature would be whisking me off to Magic School, or maybe on an urgent quest to Save the World. That never really worked out (I should have realized that my ordinary name alone instantly disqualified me), but if this selection of books about magical schools is anything to judge by, I’m hardly alone in this particular fantasy. (Needless to [...]

2019-07-16T16:12:44-07:00March 4th, 2014|Tags: |

Reading List: V-day Breakup Books

Go on, you might as well eat it all. Valentine’s Day has a sinister superpower: to make almost everyone feel stressed out about their love life. If you’re in a relationship, it poisons you with the artificially inflated expectations depicted in jewelry-store commercials and Hallmark ads; if you’re not in one, it gives you the (deeply mistaken) impression that the rest of the planet is one gigantic Noah’s Love Ark of blissfully paired-off soulmates. But shittiest of all may be if you were recently in a relationship and reasonably expected to be celebrating V-Day with someone, only to [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:47-07:00February 6th, 2014|

Little Free Library Series — House of Sand and Fog

Don't try this at home... Ready for battle? The populace was in panic mode.  All the schools were closed and a nasty blast of polar air was engulfing the entire Midwest.  A perfect day for a visit to a Little Free Library – open day and night every day of the year no matter what the weather.  With a predawn temperature of 17°F below zero – add wind gusts of 20mph to make for a -39°F wind chill – I piled on all the layers I could find, grabbed my reluctant camera and headed out. The ice and [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:48-07:00January 12th, 2014|
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