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, illustrated by Pascal Campion. I knew things were going to get hard when the library closed. I am, by profession, a writer and a professor of storytelling. I’ve read to my twin children—now four—since their infancy. But as avid readers as we already were, 2020 upped our reading quotient, and markedly. Without the library to turn to, mid-March found me binge-buying picture books both online and from our local bookstore. And when, mid-summer, our library re-opened for curbside pickup, I instantly queued up more books than I was permitted. In September, when we were, at last, allowed bac...

Shelf Life FacebookTwitterEmail “Over the Woodward Wall” by A. Deborah Baker: Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is precise, from the way he washes his face in the morning to the way he completes his homework — without complaint, without fuss, without prompt. Zib also is an exceptional child, because all children are, in their own way. Where everything Avery does and is as a person can be measured, nothing Zib does can possibly be predicted, except for the fact that she can always be relied on to be unpredictable. They live on the same street. They live in different world...

Chair reflects on two decades of public service as he exits Board of County Commissioners Jim Bernard loved his job. He told Pamplin Media Group on the eve of his exit from the Clackamas Board of County Commissioners that he enjoyed working on behalf of the county's residents 98% of the time. That's a high rating for any job, and even Bernard himself admits that 2% he found to be not pleasurable was often due to circumstances he brought upon himself. "Except for when I made mistakes, like saying something I shouldn't have said, I loved going to work everyday. And I loved working with the...

a new devvlopment in a story you saw first on fox. fox. prosecutors have dropped some charges agaanst a suspect seen throwing a unch in a downtownnballimore beating caaggt on amera. 20- year old aaron parsons no longer faces ennangerment nd one conspiracy charge in the attack. accompanied by his attorney...parsoos spoke to fox44 before turning himself in earlier this ontt and expressed disguss at his oww actions. innue: when i saw that videoo.. &poutcue: messed my mind up up parsons still faces second deeree assault...robbery... .ann theft charges as well as a charge of onspiracyyt...

your asking what you would sacrifice to cut the deficit. "the wall street journal, "the new york times, "the washington post," are all asking these kinds of questions. yesterday "the new york times" followed up on their effort to ask readers what they would do to cut the debt. this is following up -- these were the answer is picked .y the reader's the piece says that twitter users skew young, so one of the questions was reluctance to raise the eligibility age for social security. jumping down to look at this graphic for what people have tweeted in, 6900 twitter users posted solutions...