What was begun as an online journal of the books I read evolved...or maybe it devolved...to also feature behind the scenes goings-on at All About Romance from my perspective (mostly based on my personal feelings - okay, it's a personal pity party); topics I've gone over ad nauseum in commentary at AAR, including the nature of reviews and online behavior; and my non-cyber life (including family and items in pop culture that capture my interest, which is just about everything).

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Below you'll find the blogs I visit, broken out in my own odd little system of categories.

March 2008



The Gray Wolf

Sunday, 30 March 2008 11:50 P GMT-05
I'm not exactly a tree-hugger, and I am more apt to get excited about seeing a deer than a wolf, but the lifting of protection via the Federal Endangered Species Act of the gray wolf in Western states strikes me as just a little "off." The gray wol
Category: Personal/Political
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Noah and Sammy

Saturday, 29 March 2008 12:39 P GMT-05
When they lived in Dallas, my brother and sister in law, Paul and Susie, used to be just about our best friends; we even lived on the same street...through two different sets of houses. We lost that closeness when they moved to Houston many years ago
Category: Personal/Political
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My Kingdom for a Tam Tam

Friday, 28 March 2008 9:07 P GMT-05
According to an entry in the NYT City Room blog yesterday, the world is about to turn upside down for us Jews...a nation-wide Tam Tam shortage is expected for this year's Passover. Oy vay! For the uninitiated, a Tam Tam is a matzo-esque cracker eaten
Category: Personal/Political
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Stripper Name Quick Poll

Friday, 28 March 2008 3:30 P GMT-05
Turns out that most of us think our stripper names are so-so (38%) or ridiculous in the extreme (33%). Far fewer (17%) find our stripper names funny, and fewer still (8%) think they are LOL. Very few of us think they are silly. All in all, this is th
Category: Quick Polls
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My New Watch

Wednesday, 26 March 2008 3:33 P GMT-05
We all know I'm obsessive, and buying anything more than a hundred dollars requires that I obsess to death about it. My sister was looking for a new watch while I was home, to replace a 15-year-old Cartier tank that had become too expensive to servic
Category: Personal/Political
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J.D. Robb - Glom Read

Monday, 24 March 2008 3:30 P GMT-05
In just over the past month, I've read twelve additional books in J.D. Robb's In Death series, and the short story that fell between Betrayal in Death and Seduction in Death. Most of that reading occurred during my two weeks in California. For some r
Category: Reading
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Thinking Straight, A Dangerous Love, and Twenty Wishes

Saturday, 15 March 2008 5:23 P GMT-05
Thinking Straight A Dangerous Love Twenty Wishes Robin Reardon Brenda Joyce Debbie Macomber Fiction/YA Fiction Eur Hist Romance Women's Fiction Grade: B+ Grade: C Grade: B
Category: Reading

No More Low-Calorie/Low-Carb Wraps

Sunday, 9 March 2008 5:33 P GMT-05
I flew to Los Angeles a few days before my mom's surgery and for lunch we had Subway. I asked for the same double meat turkey wrap, vegetables, non-fat honey mustard dressing I always get, but was shocked when I opened the wrapper to find, instead of
Category: Personal/Political
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Four Things Meme

Friday, 7 March 2008 10:07 A GMT-05
I saw this at Larissa's this morning and thought it looked like a good way to engage my brain this morning. Here it is: 4 Jobs I've Had 1) File Clerk and Velobinder extraordinaire 2) Frozen Yogurt seller 3) Intern, Dallas Police Department 4) Mana
Category: Personal/Political
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A Heavy Heart

Wednesday, 5 March 2008 2:13 P GMT-05
Although I've ravenously read and privately discussed the presidential campaigns throughout the last months, I've been quiet here. After voting in the charade that is the Texas Democratic primary, though, I'm going to share my views in a hopefully su
Category: Personal/Political
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LLB helps launch new B&N endeavor

Tuesday, 4 March 2008 12:00 A GMT-05
Yesterday Barnes & Noble, Inc.), the world?s largest bookseller, announced the launch of Barnes & Noble Studio, a new multimedia destination on Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com/studio). Among those features debuting on the site was the very first Book
Category: Reading AAR Personal/Political Internet
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Reader Poll Results...And My Ballot

Monday, 3 March 2008 12:41 P GMT-05
(For 2007 releases) Earlier this morning I posted the results in AAR's 12th annual reader poll, as well as the corresponding ATBF column, filled with reporting from the winners, as well as analysis of the year and past years. I started to put it all
Category: Reading AAR
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Better than BE?

Sunday, 2 March 2008 7:09 P GMT-05
I don't know where I was when I saw it yesterday, but an online ad for Raw Natural Beauty, an alternative mineral makeup to Bare Escentuals, sent me on a tour of mineral makeup available on the Internet and brick and mortar stores. Before hearing of
Category: Personal/Political

Five and a Half Years?

Sunday, 2 March 2008 4:26 P GMT-05
I paid a visit to Wendy's blog today and congratulated her on her fifth anniversary as a blogger. As she points out in her blog entry, when she started, she remembers it being pretty much me, Rosario, and her. I don't even know that I can remember
Category: Blogging
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Blog Links

Sunday, 2 March 2008 2:58 P GMT-05
Yesterday I re-organized my blog links. Because I blog about a multitude of topics, I separated them thusly: Blogs Out of Books - blogs written by those involved in reading or writing, regardless of subject matter...unless the subject matter is polit
Category: Blogging
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Thanks, Vanessa!

Saturday, 1 March 2008 2:52 P GMT-05
I'd heard about this, but hadn't actually seen it until making my weekly blog run. Thanks, Vanessa! <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rGa29kPBbp4&rel=1&border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"width="425" height="355"&
Category: Entertainment
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