Category Archives: General

(Not) the Top Ten Authors I’ve Read Most

Posted on July 7, 2020 by smellincoffee

This week’s TTT, bloggers are sharing the top ten authors they’ve read the most books by….but my top ten won’t have changed too much since the last time we did this in ’15 (lots of kid-lit heavyweights), so I’m going … Continue reading →

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Music to dump tea by

Posted on July 4, 2020 by smellincoffee

  Once an honest man could go from sunrise to its set Without encountering agents of his state or government But a sorry cloud of tyranny has fallen across the land Brought on by the hollow men who did not … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books I Read and Read Again

Posted on June 23, 2020 by smellincoffee

Today Top Ten Tuesday is celebrating its tenth birthday. I’ve been participating off and on since a month or so after its inception, and I’ve enjoyed it over the years. Today its host is asking readers to revisit or expand … Continue reading →

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Corona Diary #8

Posted on June 18, 2020 by smellincoffee

Well, the partial re-opening lasted exactly a month. In the face of skyrocketing ‘rona rates across the state, and particularly in the county,  the library today shifted back to curbside-only.   (Since May 18th, we have been following a split schedule:  … Continue reading →

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Tully WAS known as the Roman king of coke

Posted on June 12, 2020 by smellincoffee
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In Remembrance

Posted on June 6, 2020 by smellincoffee

It’s a day quickly only remembered by historians, but I can’t see June 6 without thinking of that night and morning in which young men threw themselves into darkness and death to fight against a genuine enemy of civilization.  In … Continue reading →

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It’s not a problem, it’s…a…passion….?

Posted on May 29, 2020 by smellincoffee
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Corona #7…and Flowers

Posted on May 18, 2020 by smellincoffee

Things have been loosening up in Alabama in the last week,  though it’s not a return to life pre-pandemicmonium.  Right now we’re in a frustrating transition space, where stores are  getting increased demand at much-reduced capacity.   Nonprofits and the like … Continue reading →

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Offtopic but I couldn’t resist

Posted on May 15, 2020 by smellincoffee

  I’d lay odds that whoever designed that flag is a Trek  fan…

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Would You Rather….

Posted on May 8, 2020 by smellincoffee

Sarah of All the Book Blog Names are Taken has tagged me in a survey/game thing! I’m  tasked with answering her questions and then posing some of my own. 1. Would you have rather have been at court with Eleanor … Continue reading →

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