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Little Free Library Series – The Perfect Storm

Walnuts and Wooly Bears... A beautiful Wisconsin fall morning.  Purple and white asters blooming in the fields.  Wooly bear caterpillars searching for a winter hiding place.  Grasshoppers realizing their days are numbered.  Coots huddling in the bay.  Sumac turning red.  If it weren’t for the prodigious number of big fat walnuts cluttering up the bike trails, it would be the perfect day for a ride.   Regardless of the season, it’s always a good day to visit a Little Free Library. Opting for a more random approach today, improvising a route as I pedaled, I checked a couple libraries before I [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:52-07:00October 17th, 2013|

Halloween Horror Stories Reading List

Halloween is almost here! Even if you’ve outgrown the urge to dress up in costume, it’s still a great excuse to turn out the porch light, swipe the big bowl of Fun Size bars, and cozy up with a scary book. Here are ten horror books guaranteed to make you sit bolt upright and yelp, "What was that sound?!" Click through to Amazon to learn more, but whatever you do, don't turn around. Doctor Sleep, Stephen King The much anticipated follow-up to The Shining takes us into the life of now middle aged Danny Torrence.  If you've read The Shining you'll remember [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:53-07:00October 16th, 2013|Tags: |

Guilt Trip

I just finished reading Elizabeth Becker's Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism, and I kind of wish I hadn't — not because it isn't good, but because it opened my eyes to some of the significant negative impacts of international travel. I don't like having to feel bad about traveling, dammit! But it's hard to ignore the author's persuasive arguments about the immense environmental, economic, and historical damage we're doing through our unquenchable thirst for global travel experiences. You probably won't be too surprised to hear that cruises are among the most environmentally damaging kinds of international travel [...]

2023-07-03T14:32:41-07:00September 8th, 2013|Tags: , , , |
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