"Enlighten the Gentiles"

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The latest entry explains how your spouse's potchking around can send your travel plans to hell in a handbasket.And you'll find the archives HERE . Read and enjoy...... 

 

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The Man (of the House): The love of my life. Severely addicted to books (that take up WAYYYY too much space in our house) and raw garlic. We've been married 13 years, but involved for many more. Long story....

Our Kids:
SC:  Age 13. Book addicted like both her parents. Serious, but with a nice sense of humor. Well mannered in the eyes of the world, but at home,it can be another story(!)

JR: Age 9  I think of her as a Disney Princess's evil twin. All the eccentricity of both sides of the family wrapped up in a sweet little body and an adorable smile. People find her a darling. I do too, but I also find her exhausting!

The Beasts: Our 2 cats, both adopted from animal rescue. "Bart" is a big, solid black, total teddy bear of a cat. Our brown tabby queeen "Bella" is  in love with The Man, though she seems to like me too!

Me: Children's librarian by day, tired keeper of all of the above by night. When I think of my life, I think of Nicole Hollander (Sylvia)'s immortal line about things that are easier than combining a family and a career. Like swimming the Amazon covered in peanut butter....

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« H E Just Plain Ranting :: LibraryLady :: email
posted Thu, 12/01/05

 This is from a New Yorker article by Adam Gopnik about C.S.Lewis.  It's worth reading, especially for some of his comments about Narnia and Christian allegory.

I think as we begin December, the month of candles and wishes and dreams, that this says a lot about why Christmas (and Hanukah) can mean so much to those of us without anchored religious beliefs:

Atheists need ghosts and kings and magical uncles and strange coincidences, living fairies and thriving Lilliputians, just as much as the believers do, to register their understanding that a narrow material world, unlit by imagination, is inadequate to our experience, much less to our hopes.

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