When I was young the family would visit relatives in Arizona in the Spring. Since my father was a school teacher, it was natural to spend a week over the Easter Holiday communing with cactus, irrigation, and burning creosote. But one year we went to Phoenix for some sort of convention and it was in the heat of the summer. Back then few people had air conditioning and had to rely on water coolers to take the edge off the heat.
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One Full Year In Lockdown
My mother taught me how to crochet and my father showed me how to straighten a bent nail. By the sixth grade I could field-strip a traditional American bicycle and make a wicked pineapple stitch doily for the little table that ugly black rotary phone sat on in the hall (remember Ident-a-Ring?).
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Yeah, it’s new since I haven’t read any of the listed titles yet, but it’s actually the same old reading that covered so much of my time over the last year. Although I am very appreciative of the opportunity to make such a splash in my reading pool, it’s a sad commentary about how awful and how tedious 2020 actually was. Will 2021 be a less frightening year? Will I wear out my trusty iPad? Will the sky still occasionally be sunny and blue?
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A Celebration of Reading 