Poor Polar Bears

While brushing his teeth the other night, William left the water running for an extra two seconds.

"Darn, I killed polar bears," he said.

Okay, if nothing else has convinced me that kids hear what you say, this did the job.

Fourteen-year-old Benjamin will not eat meat, seafood, foods with vitamin D-3, foods with gelatin, or foods with the enzyme rennet. He fishes through the rubbish bin for items that just might possibly be even the slightest bit recyclable. He is prepared to kick global warming in all the right places. And he talks a lot about the environment.

I have made a list of potential colleges to attend next year or the one after that. This is quite exciting to me, I must say. Most of them are in Minnesota, but one is in Wisconsin and another is down in Maryland. I have been to Maryland, and liked it enormously. I have never been to MN or WI but really want to visit.

Also, I want to leave Rhode Island. I've lived here my whole life and there are, frankly, so many things I don't like about it.

As a closing note to this rather erratic post, I have a new book to review for VOYA. It is truly wonderful -- a thrilling change from the last couple of dreadful reads.

Let's see ... anything to say about the weather?

Cold, colorless, and dead. Yay.

~Emily

Books and Blogging on Too Nice a Day to Be Blogging

Yesterday I saw a hardcover copy of The Mystery of the Third Lucretia, in Barnes and Noble -- I always find myself really excited to see the hardcover edition of a book I've reviewed. There is just something so gratifying about it. I actually found my review for the book on Barnes and Noble's website, if you would like to take a look.

The actual author of the book has a really fun website (though it's only really much fun if you've read the book, which you should) -- www.susanrunholt.com.

Rhode Island today is wonderfully, amazingly, incredibly warm -- not unlike the last couple of days, but for me, this kind of day just doesn't stop being wonderful and amazing and incredible!

Ah, I'm glad I reminded myself. Why am I on the Internet?

~Emily