Books

The print media often claims that its purpose is to provide information to the citizens. Does anyone believe this?

The Bee recently sued to obtain pension information on Stan County retired employees. Public employee are also citizens. Who agrees this information should be public information?

Since the print media has the ability to decide elections, sway peoples oppinions, and choose which facts it puts in a story or leaves out, should'nt they provide the salaries of all its staff and employees?

If the  print media were concerned about quality factual reporting, all papers would be free. If the goal of papers is to inform the public of what is occuring, then all papers should be free. The cost of making papers would be paid for by Ads.

Here are a few of the girls involved with Cataline is his pole dancing video shoot.  How old are they?

I just love how this author Lisa See writes. Her words flow so beautifully.

It started with a trip to Borders, looking at all the great new reads out there.  When Shanghai Girls caught my eye. I love reading about asian cultures.  My home has a touch of asian decor.  I love going to San Fran China Town. Last trip we made there, I wanted to see Japan Town. Omgosh, the prices were out of this world! I teapot was going for $2000.00! I told my husband thank you for the trip but next time, lets stay with China Town LOL!

I had to get more of what this author had written.  I have read Snow Flower and The Secret Fan. I have just finished reading a wonderful love story, Peony In Love.  I have three more books by this author to read. The Interior,  Flower Net, and Dragon Bones. I'm still looking for Gold Mountain in hardback. I know I will find it! HeeHee!

So yeah, I'm a tinkerer's daughter. But no more do-it-yourself solutions. I'm through with recycling, repurposing and watching poorly made user videos on how to turn household materials into "durable" products. That is, when it comes to covering textbooks.

Last year, I helped my son make too many book covers to count. I think we only had ONE book that needed to be covered — a math textbook that easily outweighed any book I ever had in college — but we made no less than 10 "free" covers:

The tried-and-true method, paper bags, turned out to be Goldilocks and the Three Book Covers — this one's too tight, this one's too loose — but I never found a "just right" cover. Probably because the book was too large for normal-size bags to cover. (!!!)

Also a dud was the wrapping paper turned inside-out. (Thanks, Mom. Only you would have a stash of five rolls of wrapping paper under your bed, year-round.)

I went to the meeting, although I did not stay for the votes. I wanted to know how much the city saved by closing our park restrooms. A whopping 200K. Wow, that is definately going to make or break Modesto. Open our restrooms and stop over spending our tax dollars on things that could be put off until a more appropriate time. Also keep our money local and quit hiring outside of our city. There were over thirty items on the agenda last night and the cost were staggering. I don't think we are getting the full picture here. One item for proposal is 99 interchange with a potential cost of 62 MILLION. Yes, they are doing an evironmental study if all goes well they will need the money within the next few years. Does any one really think we will have that money.  Oh wait, there is funding to help if we do this now.  Possibly all or at least part (it was stated the design and land total about 12 million could be covered).

As a geek mom, little warms my heart as much as seeing my children, ages 9 and 11, fulfill their destinies as book nerds. A precocious reader myself, I expected to have early readers, but, as always, they were on their own time. They didn’t really like the reading-level offerings at school, with simplistic plots and cartoonish artwork, but I knew that pushing it would backfire. Working closely with their teachers, while continuing to read all the time at home, we bridged the gap with nonfiction for the fact-loving boy and rhyming, funny books for the nitpicky girl. For me, it was about trusting my instincts as a mom and trusting that children who grow up loving books will make that leap to loving to read books. And when they were ready, they did.

All you have to do is click and type..hunt and peck if you're like me.

Enjoy...