tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123160062011-07-07T18:34:11.253-05:00Libby is a writer, educator, reader, runner, friend, daughter, wife, granddaughter, niece, cousin, yogini, and more, living in Houston, Texas.Libbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021513771459645812noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12316006.post-4813306863619031272010-05-25T08:15:00.000-05:002010-05-25T11:26:24.170-05:00

Synchronicity is about the coincidental confluence of events. I've recently (just in the past day or two) started keeping a gratitude journal. I've never been all that great about journaling, no matter how many pretty books I've bought and how many resolutions I've made. However, gratitude is starting to become a practice - when I'm finishing yoga, when I'm having accupuncture, when I'm waiting

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I sat down tonight to write the long-overdue (glowing, by the way) review of Katherine Center's Get Lucky. I pulled the book off the shelf and noticed the copy of Everyone is Beautiful that I had purchased immediately after finishing Get Lucky (but then I got distracted re-reading The Count of Monte Cristo; what can I say?). So, I pulled that one off the shelf, too, thinking it would be my reward

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If you know my other site, Notesgirl.com, you can probably tell it hasn't been updated in a while. I've had some technical difficulties now that I'm no longer active in the Notes world - starting with no legal Notes client and an expired Notes ID file. Ah well.After spending most of a year unemployed after getting laid off in January 2009, I also didn't have much I wanted to say publicly. Let's

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I hate it when someone else gets to say something i've been thinking about but not quite saying -- read Orson Scott Card's review of college (and high school and grad school) English departments, and the postmodern theories they espouse...Olives, Postmodernism, and Literature Lost - Uncle Orson Reviews Everything

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Fodor's Travel Wire | Car Travel (Ireland) Did you know that there's no right on red in Ireland? Can't talk on the cell while driving, either. Read more...

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Scenes from the Culture ClashI'll have more to say about this one in a bit, especially as it relates to this one but for now... some of you millenials are making me feel old and I'm not even that old!

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southmorehouse - Phillip Bergman in the GalleryThey can't seem to spell his first name right, but this is what my boyfriend does -- he's an artist, and this was a show he had at a gallery here in Houston.Of course, at the moment, my dining room looks much like these pictures, as he works on more paintings, but then again, my office is stacked to the rafters with books while I'm working on grad

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Blogthings - What Should You Major In?Just a giggle:Your Scholastic Strength Is Developing IdeasYou can take a spark of inspiration and turn it into a full fledged concept.You are talented at brainstorming, visualizing, organizing, and independent thinking.You should major in:Natural sciencesComputer scienceCreative writingMathArchitectureJournalismWhat Should You Major In?

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Maud Newton: BlogIn this entry, Maud and her readers talk about their first literary crushes - thanks to a related Slate article -- maybe books they fell in love with or that changed the way they looked at books.Do you have one?I started with my literary crushes early and can still, quite clearly, remember the action and feel of reading Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little (

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Women's Place, Revisited - New York TimesWill the US be next?

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YogaYak- Yoga Classes Online Hatha Meditation PranayamaYoga online -- too cool

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Fort Art Month: Girl Writing a Letter by William CarpenterLike art? Like a giggle? Via profgrrrl, this is it. :-)

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The Mechanical Contrivium: Trivia about NotesgirlVia profgrrrrl, this made me giggle:Ten Top Trivia Tips about Notesgirl! There are now more than 4000 satellites orbiting notesgirl.Notesgirl can sleep with one eye open.The National Heart Foundation recommends eating notesgirl at least three times a week.Notesgirl can give birth ten days after being born, and is born pregnant.Only one person in

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A BLOGGER IS JUST A WRITER WITH A COOLER NAMEHow true is this? And additionally, I'd say that there are many of us who are trying to keep up our "write something every day" lesson for whom blogging makes that a bit easier in some ways -- it's always easier to write something when you have an audience (or at least a potential audience) waiting.

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Powell's Books - PowellsBooks.BLOGBook. Blogs. Rock.

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Chron.com | Honors College tackles the daunting classicsHuman Sit was one of my favorite classes and the fact that my grad school program at Rice began with a similar type of course was inspiring. When I think of what education should include, a Human Sit style course that includes a wide-range of "great works" (literature) integrated with science, mathematics, history, philosophy, religion,

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ReadingGroupGuides.comMay be a way to enhance our book club -- with contests, reading guides, suggestions, etc.

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vowe dot net :: url(x)Seriously neat -- useful tool and clearly good response from the builder -- thanks for pointing it out, Volker.

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Flying Fish SailorsLink to the Fish -- good, funny music.

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LIbby and Philip and Philip's nephew Rhyson Christmas day at the Bergman's house. 

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Skip, Mary Ann, Paul, Margo and Rhys, David, and Philip in their family Christmascard picture. 

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Hannah and I were wearing matching Santa hats when she and her mommy and daddy came over for Christmas brunch. Cute! 

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Actual presents underneath this time. They didn't last long because the kitties were a bit confused by having stuff on the floor -- they couldn't quite tell the different types of boxes apart... 

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We went to see the Flying Fish Sailors at Hickory Hollow for their Dec 23rd concert. I've known the Fish since I used to work at Texas Ren. Fest - I used to know Greg and Jay (left to right, in front) pretty well, but that was almost a decade ago! Still, awesome concert -- some of my favorites are Mary Mac, Poke You in the Eye, Loch Ness Monster, and Irish Rover. They were on a Beatles-esque kick

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Just finished decorating the Christmas tree... 

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This is Pandora and Nibbler on my bed... 

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ENFP ProfileTook a Myers-Briggs type quiz today, via It's All One Thing and came up with a very different result than the last few times I've taken a Myers-Briggs. Of course, it's been a while and this was a much shorter quiz, so I'm not sure that it necessarily means anything, but it was interesting.What is even more interesting to me is that I used to read the descriptions for the "positive"

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Inside Higher Ed :: Easy Targets Journalists vs. Academics, especially in the humanities -- I wonder if this is a place where I can bring some clarity as I get further into my humanities academic studies --

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Reverse dictionary -- you type in a concept; it gives you the words.

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Amusing quizziness. Kermit the FrogYou scored 58% Organization, 50% abstract, and 71% extroverted! This test measured 3 variables. First, this test measured how organized you are. Some muppets like Cookie Monster make big messes, while others like Bert are quite anal about things being clean. Second, this test measured if you prefer a concrete or an abstract viewpoint. For the purposes

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Another top 10 of 2005 list -- Of course, I like Stephen King's writing in general and his EW essays almost made me keep paying for a subscription. In any case, I've read two of his recommendations (Rowling and McEwan -- WOW, was Saturday engrossing) and plan to keep an eye out for some of the others....

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Read a short verse online... via NeilGaiman.com

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A nice tidbit about how (and why) IBM is using (and encouraging) blogging, wikis, and podcasts.

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Concurring Opinions: What If Copyright Law Were Strongly Enforced in the Blogosphere? I got linked to this article from someone -- sorry that I don't remember where I saw it first. Especially since that makes posting it very ironic, given the topic. We -- all of us bloggers -- do take fair use as far as it can go. As someone who falls both into the camp of a writer who gets paid for writing

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What Are the Blogs Saying About Me? - New York Times Yes, it's another NYT article -- sorry. Anyway, this one is about the interaction between blogs (and bloggers) and authors. What I find interesting is that the author of this article didn't talk as much about how authors USE blogs, such as Neil Gaiman's ongoing discussion. As for me, blogs weren't quite as big when I first published, but my

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Two Gay Cowboys Hit a Home Run - New York Times Sorry, it's the NYT -- registration required. This is a review/essay about Brokeback Mountain the "gay cowboy movie" that has had "stunning weekend grosses" in NY, LA, and SF -- highest per-screen average in those cities, of any movies this year. Thank you people. From everything I've read about it, this story tells about the pain for people forced

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Salon.com Books | Top 10 books of the year It's that time of year -- the time when anyone who talks about books in the media does a top X books of the year. Here's Salon's list. I haven't read many of their suggestions, although a few of them are in the "to be read" pile next to my bed (the pile that not only took over the nightstand, but actually engulfed an entire small bookshelf!). I've

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Important to be able to find again -- Sir Tim Berners-Lee and his blog.via vowe.net

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Aljazeera.Net - Japan's geeks set to inherit the EarthI watch an anime every week with the boyfriend and his friends about Otaku and one not-quite-so-Otaku girlfriend who struggles to "get it."Thought this was interesting in that light. :-) I would never have known the term otherwise, so I guess I'm learning something too.'Course, I'm not sure how I feel about reading it in al-Jazeera, but...via

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CNN.com - No advances made in adult literacy, study says - Dec 15, 2005 This is CNN's take on the NYTimes story I mentioned below: "From 1992 to 2003, adults made no progress in their ability to read sentences and paragraphs or understand other printed material such as bus schedules or prescription labels. "The adult population did make gains in handling tasks that involve math, such as

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(Registration required for the link) This article says that, according to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy exam -- which was given in 2003 to 19,000 people in the US -- our literacy has declined. Interestingly, the article emphasizes that it is the literacy of college graduates that has declined, but the test was given to "people 16 and older, in homes, college housing and in prisons"

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Lotus Geek | You, in 10 words Can you describe yourself in 10 words/short phrases? Looking at my heading above, you can see that I tried, but here's the list I posted for Rocky: 1. reader 2. writer 3. friend 4. (grad) student 5. educator 6. yogini 7. family-member (aka, daughter, granddaughter, niece, cousin) 8. girlfriend 9. curious 10. runner 11. geek

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Narnia - Uncle Orson Reviews Everything Good review of the movie -- can't wait to see it!

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Yoga Journal : Wisdom : Yoga tradition and philosophy, information on yoga's pioneers, wisdom from spiritual teacher Philip Moffitt, and ways to incorporate the eight-fold path into your daily life.: "Like many of my peers, my spiritual seeking has taken me down foreign paths and into distant countries. This blending of influences has molded me into someone who can believe in a Buddhist cosmology

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A Fantasy Realm Too Vile for Hobbits - New York Times I read the first 2 of this series avidly and lovingly after they were suggested by my friend Scott. The third started to lose steam for me. After this review/essay, I may have to go back to the start and read them all. I did get a bit overwhelmed, I think, by the painful events. Not quite enough redemption. But, perhaps I was too hasty. I'm

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Zero Tolerance - New York TimesMom bought me both of Truss's books for Christmas. They're in the "to read" pile, but it is worth considering whether ranting about bad behaviour is bad behaviour in itself? Ms. Manners? Ms. Truss? Your thoughts?Thanks for your good behaviour here.

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Main Page - Blogsphere, a Lotus Domino Blog I'm planning to create a new blog for LotusUserGroup.org using, probably, Blogsphere. Need to save this for more research.

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Philip's Rio died; I need to call for tech support. :-(

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Via Neil Gaiman -- So many cool things here; too bad I'm already in grown-up school at Rice!

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Currently reading: The Reading Group, by Elizabeth Noble. It's about a group of women (why are the people in book clubs always women? both in real life and in literature? i've been in three book clubs and none has had a male member... ah well) in a book club. It's set in the UK. I started reading the book, got about a chapter in, and immediately got depressed. Not one of these women is having a

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When I get a bit blue, I go through and re-read books. In the last week, I've re-read two David Eddings series: The Belgariad and The Malloreon. Yesterday and today I've been re-reading Robert Heinlein's The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. If you've read any Heinlein, you've probably got an opinion -- it seems that people either love or hate his work.I'm one of those who loves it.I recently bought

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(edited)Most of my friends know me on my other site -- Notesgirl.com, but I wanted to try some things out that Blogger offers.I'm not trying to hide from my other identities; I just want a place to talk about different things. Topics to expect here include book reviews, essay topics, links and tidbits on news stories, opinions, etc.

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