Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger

Something for Thursday

Another week, another song in the challenge! This week it’s A Song That Makes You Want To Dance, and while I almost went with Donna Summer and “Last Dance”, I’ll go instead with the always-wonderful Sam Cooke. We’re “Twistin’ the … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Last night we finally watched this year’s New Years From Vienna concert, a new year tradition of mine that dates back to high school when I discovered this wonderful annual program on PBS. We used to watch it on New Years Night, … Continue reading

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On books, and joy, and hoarding, and having too many books, and what to do with the too many books you have, and….

I recently decided to re-read a book that I first read back in 1995 when it first came out, a wonderful volume by journalist Nicholas Basbanes called A Gentle Madness. Subtitled Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, Basbanes … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

Although given the fact that everyone I’ve already shown this to has laughed, it might actually be a good joke.

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Something for Thursday

It is Thursday, isn’t it? Once the Holidays start, I always find it takes until the first full week in January that doesn’t have a holiday in it before I start to know what day it is again with any … Continue reading

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2018: Things I Wrote

The year 2018 was kind off odd for me in terms of my online essay and blog-post production. It was the sparsest year yet in terms of posts on this site (don’t worry, I’ve no intention of shutting down, but … Continue reading

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2018: My Year In Books

While I’ve been on Goodreads for a number of years, it’s only in the last two that I’ve started using it more aggressively as a device to track my reading. Here’s the complete list of what I read in 2018, … Continue reading

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2018: It’s dead, Jim

Time for the yearly look back at a year that was…well…let’s just look back. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? “Read a lot, write a lot” aren’t terribly hard goals for … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

On the penultimate night of the Christmas season, here is an entire album, which is one of my favorite listens this time of year. We’re almost there! Christmas is almost here!

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

I’m not a terribly big fan of Mannheim Steamroller’s Christmas music, but this setting of “Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella” is quite lovely.

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