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Meaningful Blog Awards

Phyl — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:04:17 +0000

Here are the ten things that make me happy [...]

Browsing and Books

Phyl — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:04:34 +0000

HAPPY DIWALI TO MY INDIAN FRIENDS!

You may have noticed that I haven’t been able to do my Sunday morning browse through my blogroll in recent months. Life has just been too packed with STUFF, unfortunately. I may see if I can do a couple peeks at a time every day or two, rather [...]

Feeding a baby racoon!

Phyl — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:48:56 +0000

A lovely treat for you today! This is one of my online acquaintances, Maryellen, feeding a baby raccoon. She works with her local wildlife services to help baby animals who have lost their mother survive, and then she trains them to go back into the wild. She just finished raising two baby squirrels, and now [...]

Browsing with the Special Pals

Phyl — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:45:06 +0000

Today I’m going to divert from my usual tour through the Bookish blogs in my blogroll, and concentrate on those in the Special Pals section. Because they’re very important to me too, even if they’re not explicitly book-related blogs. And some are fellow Today.com exiles, which makes them even more important to [...]

Request for help from Peter S. Beagle

Phyl — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:00:34 +0000

I’m posting this because I know exactly how he feels, having been in the same situation more times (especially lately) than I care to count. If you can help in any way, please do:

From Peter Beagle’s newsletter, The Raven:

A PERSONAL REQUEST TO ALL MY FANS

by Peter S. Beagle

If you’ve ever read [...]

So! Where were we…?

Phyl — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:55:42 +0000

I’m back! I’m back!! *jumping up and down*

Thanks to the help and the work of my dear friend Kevin, to whom I am not nearly good enough in return, Bookishgal is back!

Can’t keep a good gal down (and that is so an inside joke).

Anyway! I’m sure there will be some tweaking yet, [...]