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I recently had the good fortune to be chosen as a 'first look' reviewer for Virago, who are an UK based publishing house focused on female writers. Given recent surveys which indicate that female writers still find it harder to get published and reviewed, and receive less time and page space in the literature magazines, I think the women's press needs all the support I can give and having a space which promotes excellent female writers is, in my opinion, a great thing, though it would be greater ...

No bigger day in American sports than tomorrow.

A sports fan was sitting in the top row at the Super Bowl, barely able to see the field. He noticed a vacant seat about 3 rows back on the 50-yard line. It was still vacant when the second quarter started, so he went down and asked the man seated next to it if anyone was sitting there.

The man said “No, have a seat.” A few minutes later he asked the man if he knew whose seat this was and why they weren’t here at such an

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Tomorrow marks the hundredth anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, certainly the greatest president of my life time and as I think over our national history only behind Washington and Lincoln. I was too young to really appreciate him when he was in office. Heck, I was just a stupid college kid. I think the moment it dawn on me just how right he had been happened the moment the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990 two years after he left office. He was right after all. Economically (free enterprise ...

OK, so the last day won't really be until Sunday, but it's the last day of the work week. I felt really aimless all day. I cleaned the kitchen and made the beans. I went for a walk, listening to the snow crunch under my feet, and sniffing at the frosty tang in the air that you only feel and smell when it has snowed. Some kids were playing in the snow. They had made wall out of blocks of snow and I do believe they were working on making some snowballs. Good times.

I haven't seen snow ...

So we are out a third day, all because the temperature is below freezing. What luck!

I painted this afternoon; I would really like to post my stuff, but I don't know how. Maybe I can get someone to help me tomorrow.

On other news fronts, I turned off my heater this morning just to give it a rest and it took most of the day to warm up the living room. Someone suggested that I flip the switch on my ceiling fan then turn it on. D'oh!!!! My living room, while still cool, ...