Tag Archives: books

Some kind of meta

Posted on 16 January 2013 by pattiblaine

Before I badly sprained my ankle and at an atypical time of year, I ordered a large number of books — for my work, not for me personally. Some were to give away as birthday gifts to the students that … Continue reading →

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Tying up loose ends

Posted on 15 June 2012 by pattiblaine

Last Friday morning I felt as if a tight set of strings inside me went suddenly slack. I woke with not-too-much-pressing to do, an unusual state of being for me. Later, at about 9 in the morning, a luxuriously late … Continue reading →

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Ruminations on a repetitive movement injury

Posted on 12 May 2012 by pattiblaine

I am in the midst of sorting new soft-cover children’s books for the 340 or so students who will receive five each before they leave school for the summer. Each book we give is stamped with the words, “This book … Continue reading →

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Play dough ponderings and nighttime inundations

Posted on 9 February 2012 by pattiblaine

A couple of weeks ago, after a week of unwanted awaking at 4:30 a.m. and unwarranted, repetitive, anxiety-filled dreams of flooding and other water games, I attempted to drop out of docent-training at the local art gallery. That’s right. I … Continue reading →

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Tuesday: Random

Posted on 19 July 2011 by pattiblaine

1. I have got nothing cohesive and little coherent to say. 2. It has been very dry here. So dry, yesterday’s welcome passing thunderstorms were not enough to stave off our front yard occupant’s drought stress. Sunday, when my neighbor … Continue reading →

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Shiny happy people

Posted on 19 February 2011 by pattiblaine

Monday evening: Bruce and I loaded our car with 12 garbage bags (really need to see if I can’t do this with canvas bags next time… but ForceFlex bags are amazing… except the scent, eww) full of bags of books … Continue reading →

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