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this is especially for guys, but you gals can listen up to. It is short and sweet: WEAR A DAMN SUIT TO AN INTERVIEW….SHAVE (in spite of what you think and what the trend is, that fuzz on your face looks stupid )…POLISH YOUR SHOES. Ladies, follow tthe same appropriate advice.

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“Thank you, Mrs Hopper” said the young policewoman when her biscuits were in front of her with a cup of tea.

“Please call me Maud...

Author/Illustrator:John Hare
Publisher:Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House, 2019
Age:3-7
Themes: school field trips, moon, stories without words

Summary: (from my library catalog) in this wordless picture book, a girl is accidentally left behind on a class trip to the moo...

Why one of the most important sutras in Buddhism was slandered by the spread of false statements

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Now I can laugh about it. A couple of nights ago it seemed far less funny. First you have to understand my husband is addicted to his phone. It is an extension of his arm. If God gave you an option of having a hand or a phone he would choose a phone. He goes nowhere without it – and I mean absolu...

I’m not sure, if I’m going to do episode by episode reviews of Star Trek: Picard like I did for Discovery, but the first episode of Picard, which became available on Thursday, certainly does deserve some discussion.

Now Star Trek is notorious for weak first episodes and entire seasons. It’s a trad...

My apologies for the recent duplicate posts and general wonkiness on the blog. I’ve been trying to spruce things up a bit and explore some of the lovely features of this new template, and not being much of a techie, it’s really all click and error for someone like me. (Mostly error, LOL.) But I h...

Nils: The Tree of Life by Jérôme Hamon

Publication: February 11th, 2020

Publisher: Magnetic Press

Source: Review copy from NetGalley – Thank You

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A dystopic Nordic fantasy world, where spirits of light are the key to life, but seemingly have abandoned the world. Young Nils and his fath...

London’s got an impressive number of meat-free, dairy-free restaurants on its roster so if ever you needed an excuse to eat your way around the city and up your vegan ante, there it is. Forget the meticulous planning or whipping out your backup lunchbox tableside, these vegan spots have got it c...

A name with roots in 'transport' which suggests urban travel and commuting.

Holding the Bank (at Tallmansville, West Virginia)
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[image error]I was travelling the M61 south from Chorley in the predawn murk. I’m not sure if it qualifies as the worst stretch of motorway in the UK, but it’s certainly the worst I have to drive. The lane markings have almost gone and the cats eyes where they exist at all are dim, so these dark,...

The problem with using technology for nearly every aspect of our lives is most of us have no real sense of how much time that iscollectively.

Not only do we use technology for work — as well as our entertainment afterwork — we’ve started f...