Pilgrimage of Desire

I had the privilege of meeting Alison Gresik at the Festival of Faith and Writing.  I was immediately intrigued by her perspective and by her work.  I'm still interested, which is, I think, one of the best things you can say about someone.  Alison's current project is publishing a memoir through Indiegogo.  Indiegogo is interesting all on it's own, but when you add to that the story of a family recovering from depression by selling their home and using the money to travel the world it becomes irresistable.  Throw into the mix two charming children. and you have movie popcorn with chocolate chips sprinkled in.  To take a look or to support her efforts visit this link--http://www.indiegogo.com/Pilgrimage-of-Desire

lose ends

Sin the Sizer grapples with ablest life 
Gilt with silver 
A long way drown

That New Baby Feeling

I have been blessed with six children.  Each one still brings me great joy, but there is something about those sleepless early bits when you are trying everything you've ever heard and relying on everyone you've ever known that are particularly special.  So I was tickled to discover you can get that new baby feeling over a turtle.  Our second found a hatchling turtle wandering the road.  Our oldest decided to bring her home.  The rest of us decided to keep her.  There's so much to learn about our girl, and we are so excited.  I'm out of diapers, but into an aquarium filter.  Sounds like a good swap to me.

If you can't get enough at the grocery store

When I was young, UPCs were a novelty, and watching the cashier scan the groceries evoked scanner envy.  Then came the self-checkout, and my joy overflowed.  Now you can bring that joy home--with The Home Library App.  Just wave the camera over the UPC on the back of most books and seconds later you have a detailed record of your book.  For older books, you can do a keyword search, for really old books you can enter it manually.  So far I've scanned about 1/2 of our books, I think, and we have 1, 021 titles and the replacement value is 20,000.
I'm enjoying reconnecting with books I haven't seen in a while.  My library is one of my favorite ways of connecting with people.  Pulling the perfect book off the shelf never gets old, and most of my books get returned--though it's been a while since I've seen A Good Man is Hard to Find.
Great app!  Good clean fun.