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Fill it out, send it in

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What am I talking about? Your 2010 Census form, of course! We sent ours in last week, so we’re already part of the (currently) 54% participation rate for Indiana. You can see how that rate changes in the widget I’ve added to my sidebar, or you can check your own area’s rate at [...]

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Bill Bryson Reminds Me …

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I’m reading Bill Bryson’s The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid in preparation for next month’s book discussion. Although I’m about seven or eight years younger than Bryson, his memoir of growing up in Iowa in the fifties is bringing back some memories for me. It really was a much simpler time: [...]

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Today’s book discussion, and memories of past times

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Well, we had our book discussion of The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer today. It went quite well. Lots of discussion, very lively. There were myself and ten or eleven women present. I did learn one thing today: Even when men and women are reading the same book, they’re not reading the same [...]

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The Tender Bar

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(Crossposted from Book Talking)

On March 17th at noon, we’ll be discussing The Tender Bar by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer J.R. Moehringer. The Tender Bar is the author’s memoir of growing up in a household of mostly women with an absent father. He tells about his search for a father in his life, and [...]

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