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ACCEPTANCE
*Pulley and lines on the Star of India. * Ever since I ground to a halt on The Crow Quilt, I knew I had to jump start myself somehow. Hit myself over the head with some new thinking. Get over ...
IN THE DETAILS
The Great G isn’t happy with my morning coffee travel mug. I knock it over first thing in the morning. He buys a carpet cleaning machine. Two times later when I do it, I get a new and lower ...
COLLECTIONS
I must say that I am very grateful for the donations of the last two book collections to our Discovery Shop. The nautical books now have over powered their little bookcase. At least I have al...
FADED
There is something about my voice that no one around me can hear the commands that save lives, those orders now known only to me sway their way into the cosmos unheard as they fade away. In the...
AVIATION BOOKS
• The Discovery Shop has received another excellent donation of books, this time they are of airplanes, airplane history, and turbines. • I cheated. This time I didn’t bring them all home ...
SPRING GREEN
Glorious stuff spring green. I’m really enjoying seeing the leaves grow, see the grasses go from their winter greys, and see the sun out for a little while. Pretty soon we will have May Grey a...
LAST ENTRY
Changes. Everything always changes. I started blogging many years ago on some hard to use site. My blog’s name was Day Tripper. It was fitting as I had been a day tripper not so many years...
SHOES
My shoes are a mess. Who care’s…well, I do. I come home through the garage, take off my shoes near the wall, and put on my fuzzy slippers. The shoes pile up. And up. Margot was talking yeste...
FIRST THINGS
I’m having a good time reading a memoir that actually has details. Like, what does she really do first thing in the morning? Me…I pull the covers up over my head as Mr. Pillow comes marching ...
RAIN, RAIN
The rain is coming in over the ocean. You can see the wind blowing, and the surf churning as it throws kelp up onto the sand. The birds hunker down with their backs to the storm, and as do we...
A MUSEUM GATHERING
I shuffled books successfully this morning. The shelves are full and customers are buying. Now Home, I have to find something semi humorous to wear to this third Poolie memorial. I think she ...
FINDING PAPERWORK
• The Nautical books are now all separated into above $35.00 and below $35.00. I went in yesterday and priced these lower priced volumes and got them out on the floor. Everything got priced j...
NEARING COMIC CON TIME
2017: George in his “Fall Out Four series,” It’s a computer game. It’s time to fuss with the costumes. His needs to go to the cleaners, and mine needs a jewelry change….perhaps a wig to...
A BEAUTIFUL SATURDAY
19 boxes of Nautical Books • What’s really happening: • Remember those 19 boxes of nautical books? It appears that we don’t sell anything under $35.00 on eBay. I get pull all those ...
CRUISING WITH ROCKS
She called herself Mrs. Gotrocks and laughed. Traveling by ship used to be quite a production. In the 1800’s, you took your giant steamer trunk filled with everything you might need wit...
HAPPY PI DAY!
From Linda Alvarado on Facebook. Math was always far, far over my head. My poor, brilliant parents had to put up with a child who couldn’t get beyond third grade math. No languages either...
OUR BERLIN WALL
....if you are offended by my politics, please skip this entry. This is a photograph of one of the Border Wall Prototypes just this side of Tijuana. Photographed by John Gibbons for the San Di...
DISTRACTIONS
Taken Saturday at the Mingei Museums show of unique and artistic books from local libraries. Photo: G. I’m so easily distracted today. When I go to check Facebook, I found almost fifty f...
HOPE
Hope at last. George took this day off to be with me as I made my rounds. CT Scan at 0845, and I surprised the clerk with all the right paperwork. Then I was off to work where I discovered a...
LETTING THOSE FEARS GO
list text here Niki St. Phalle’s “Le Poete et sa muse.” I need to do a lot more letting go. I can easily let my fear of failure fill my days. I can forget all I have learned and let thes...
BLUE SKIES
HAL’s Maasdam with downtown behind her. Just for today, life is pretty comfortable and easy. I took G with me to the doctor’s office yesterday. My anchor. My prescriptions are renewed,...
RUTHLESS
I confess. I read a lot of mysteries. New authors poke their way into my consciousness often….unfortunately. Yes, I have a lot of bookcases, but the one behind the bed is home to the myster...
JIM O'DONNELL
He was a happy, loquacious, mathematical man. He graduated Chula Vista High School and moved immediately to San Francisco. “He was a randy young man,” his cousin told us yesterday. He had ove...
FINDING THAT BOOK
Once long, long ago I asked my librarian friend Katy, sitting up there on the bench with me, how to find a book. She mentioned that she used ABE books to look for books at her bookstore job. F...
FINDING THAT BOOK
Once long, long ago I asked my librarian friend Katy, sitting up there on the bench with me, how to find a book. She mentioned that she used ABE books to look for books at her bookstore job. F...
