Tag: family
member name: Leslie ~ from NYC ~ R.
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November 29, 2009 09:50 AM EST --
and her husband are visiting. It's a new experience for me to have houseguests. I have never had any in NYC, and here in San Diego there's actually a guestroom!
Since my cousin's husband . . .
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May 29, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
Over the weekend I found out that the younger son of the principal of the school I work in has died.
He had various health issues and was on medication for nerve damage in his legs.
His parents found . . .
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March 03, 2007 07:02 PM EST --
Written by Guillermo Martínez
I left the house without a book, so bought this at the thrift shop before coming home. I read it on the bus, then at home until I finished it - less than 200 . . .
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May 17, 2007 03:33 AM EDT --
There are three teachers who deal with self-contained special education classes in my school. I teach science, one teaches history and the other teaches math. We all decided to have a trip . . .
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January 24, 2007 07:08 AM EST --
ORLANDO (AP) - Flight attendants often deal with obnoxious passengers who won't listen to instructions by kicking them off the plane. But a Massachusetts couple think AirTran Airways went overboard . . .
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May 12, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
I have worked in special education classes for almost 25 years.
I worked on elementary and high school level. I've been a classroom teacher, a second teacher in the room - to help special ed. kids . . .
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August 22, 2007 02:45 PM EDT --
I am currently on vacation - I was in San Diego with my mother for a week. After a few days her computer died. I was able to access the Internet (and gather) at the library, but then schedules didn't . . .
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April 19, 2008 06:33 AM EDT --
Allergies arrived on time - April 15th. Then yesterday evening I realized I was getting a fever and felt cold. Ah, a cold on top of the allergies - what fun.
And I fly out today to see my . . .
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July 27, 2009 06:30 AM EDT --
author: Myla Goldberg
This book had been made into a movie. It focused on the plot line of the young girl who finds herself able to spell and win spelling bees although she had been a mediocre . . .
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March 21, 2007 09:26 PM EDT --
Author - Laurence Yep
I've read other books by this author - he concentrates on Chinese culture often within the American environment. He also puts together books of Chinese legends and . . .
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May 04, 2007 06:22 PM EDT --
A compilation of short essays about the relationship between in-laws.
I'd first heard about this book at a course my mother takes (she snuck me in) given by a woman who discusses the books she's . . .
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July 09, 2007 09:03 PM EDT --
(yes the title is not in caps on the cover of the book)
Author: judy budnitz
Four generations of women - great-grandmother, all the way down to great-granddaughter. The family originated . . .
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April 24, 2009 04:22 PM EDT --
Author: Ursula Hegi
I have read some great work by this author and some work that didn't, well, work.
This was somewhere in between. Although it's a small book, it took me a . . .
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January 02, 2007 04:07 AM EST --
By Elizabeth Lynn
A(nother) book review
Took a bit of getting involved with, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
There are changelings - hawk, wolf, dragon - kings, nobles, vengeful wars, family . . .
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January 17, 2007 09:54 AM EST --
My apartment is usually very cold in the winter. It doesn't help that some of the windows are still open - kitchen, cats' room, living room, dining room and until last night bedroom. I live . . .
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March 02, 2007 06:03 AM EST --
First to ask, first to receive - leave me your address, and I'll send the books out.
Homeless Bird- Gloria Whelan - a young woman in India is forced into a marriage. Cultural differences. . . .
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April 01, 2007 01:16 PM EDT --
Author, Edwidge Danticat
I have read various books by this author - she is a Haitian young woman who has been writing about her country, it's history and culture especially as the two . . .
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July 16, 2007 03:13 PM EDT --
Author: Emily Fox Gordon
Subtitle: My life in and out of therapy
This is a similar book to Girl Interrupted in time and situation. Another girl out of control in the 50s and 60s sent . . .
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July 19, 2007 08:04 AM EDT --
When my parents moved from NYC to California, they left behind most of their furniture. They did take the dining room set - the table and the chairs.
As humans are creatures of habit, my mother . . .
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July 28, 2007 07:31 AM EDT --
Author: Ursula Hegi
I've read a number of books by this author - the "voice" is very different in each one. I'd been at a reading of hers once - she read from a . . .
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