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are a person's single-most best soulmate. is like stumbling onto those great "finds" ya got at the garage sale! Not necessarily. A picture could never live up to what is "between the lines" in great WRITINGS. | ||
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(also see Links area)  I will write myself into well-being. -Nancy Mair Bloom where you're planted. -Mary Engelbrett I don't know much about being a millionaire, . . . . . .but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. -Dorothy Parker I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. -Gilda Radner |
 As far as crispy-fresh, brand-spankin', shiney-new books, my passion (and near-obsession) is for craft books and how-to books. I love going to my very own bookshelf and picking one out to leaf through. My collection grows and grows and I LOVE it! Here's some examples from my shelf: | |
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It not only tells how to make paint from powdered milk, but things like how to kill slugs with beer, how to hide scratches on furniture with crayons, how to clean your diamonds with club soda! It's just FULL of stuff like that, and is so much fun to skip around in and read! Just click on the picture to get info about ordering. | |
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by Joey Green |
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winter days. My plan is to get me a big mug full of one of those fancy flavored coffees, get this book out, kick back, and try my hand at Calligraphy. I've never tried to do it before. And this book has great big, easy-to-see illustrations, which appear to cover all of the basics. | |
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(First Steps Series), by Don Marsh |
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getting organized? Boy, I did, until I found this one. All the ones I'd ever seen before were boring, to say the least, and only told me stuff I already knew but just didn't.....do. But THIS one is different! It's great! And it's not only for people who are UNorganized, it's ALSO for people who ARE, but have to work/live with people who are NOT. Just click on to the picture for info on how to order. | |
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by Dorothy Lehmkuhl & Delores Cotter Lamping. |
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"Writing is easy. . . . . just open a vein." -originator of quote unknown  |
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 One of my favorite writings is entitled, "Starfish," by Jack Canfield and Mark V. Hansen. I'd love to know about your reaction to it! Tell me in my guestbook, or email me. |
Why I Hate Quitting Smoking |
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THE WHITE INDIAN SERIES, BY DONALD CLAYTON PORTER -A friend (thanks, Jerry) gave me my first 10-or-so. From there, I found most of my teen-series at-or-through local paperback bookstores, and have lucked out a few times at thrift stores and swapmeets. I haven't yet found a bargain copy of #13, and I refuse to read past #12 until I DO find it. I'm into the 20-series in my collection.
The SUDS-IN-YOUR-EYE SERIES, by MARY LASSWELL - Are there anymore Lasswell fans out there??? I'd love to hear from you!!! Very few people I know ever heard of her - or of this old fun-to-read series. I found my whole collection, one at a time, on the net. The books in the series are:
-A collection of BETTY MACDONALD books-THE EGG AND I, THE PLAGUE AND I, and ONIONS IN A STEW And I'm on the lookout for a bargain copy of ANYBODY CAN DO ANYTHING. I found some of them at local used booksales, including the booksale at my local public library, and one of them on the net. I even found a spare copy of The Egg and I, which I gave to my sister, Pat, who got me hooked on MacDonald in the first place. Pat and I both love the wit and humor used in telling about Ms. MacDonald's real-life adventures. Incidentally, I plan to soon acquire the movie version of The Egg and I, as well as the old spin-off movies from it, the Maw and Paw Kettle series.
-A collection of SHIRLEY MACLAINE books - The ones of hers I have so far are OUT ON A LIMB, DANCING IN THE LIGHT, YOU CAN GET THERE FROM HERE, and DON'T FALL OFF THE MOUNTAIN. The first one I read was Out on a Limb. Reading it gave me a much, MUCH larger, broader view of spirituality than I've ever had in my life! Ms. MacLaine did BIG time research on the subject. I'm talking she thoroughly researched it! I am now totally in awe of Shirley MacClaine, not only as a great actress, but as a person, not to mention a fine writer. This is a great book for believers and non-believers alike. I then read Dancing in the Light, which gave a fascinating insight to how much she had spiritually evolved since the learning quests she'd written about in that first one I'd read. It was later on that I read You Can Get There From Here, which was all about that infamous trip to China that she and that group of assorted-personalities of women went on together a coupla-so decades ago. Jumping back in time like that, from who she had become in the other two books, plus finally learning details about that long-ago trip, was, to me, a very intriguing "jump-back." And even MORE so, more intensely so, in reading Don't Fall Off the Mountain, which goes all the way back into her childhood and into her young adulthood. I'm usually a big stickler about reading a series of an author's works in the order in which they were written, but I found, in this instance, something somehow very insightful through this "flash-back" way of reading. Insightful about Shirley MacLaine, but also quite insightful about myself! I recognized how she has spiritually evolved, I recognized how I have, even though her life and my life are nothing alike. There is something intensely magical, mystical, extraordinary to me about these books. I treasure them. These can all be ordered online. Just clickon to which form of the book (paperback or hardcover) you'd like to see ordering info on. |
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 Donna Jones-Flood Most of Donna's stories are works of fiction based on historical facts. Facts with regards to the lives of her Osage Indian ancestors and their co-existance with whites, in Osage County, Oklahoma. THE MAJORITY OF HER GREAT WORKS ARE ONLINE! For a gateway into this free wealth of great writings, CLICK HERE |
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