Posted February 2, 2010 by Gayle
Dear Bookstore Friends,
When the storms of a few weeks ago hit the Valley I couldn’t believe they were forecasting tornadoes in Arizona. I recall times in the past when roofs have blown off mobile homes, but tornadoes seem like something that happens in the Midwest and South, not the desert. We did get high winds and enough rain to worry us about possible flooding through the patio doors. One morning I Iooked out my kitchen window to see a huge limb broken off the Chilean Mesquite just outside. The tree is old and had lost other substantial limbs, but this last one may mean that the tree must come down. It looks so odd now, with more stubs than branches, no longer the magnificent mesquite which twice a year is covered in tiny yellow balls that drift down to carpet the ground underneath. [Continued on Letters page]
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Below are links to some of my newest additions (this is my temporary work-around for traditional blog posts):
December 17, 2009
October 13, 2009
July 21, 2009
- Fun, New Video from The Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC
June 10, 2009
- Poem for June
April 13, 2009
- Thoughts about Community in Tidbits
April 1, 2009
- Project Book Babe Benefit 4/4/09 — (see Community post on April 1, 2009)
- Tidbits about CHB’s new events
February 24, 2009
February 16, 2009
February 13, 2009
February 7, 2009
January 26, 2009
January 11, 2009
January 10, 2009
January 5, 2009
- A short little video of Phoebe Damrosch giving a talk about her book, Service Included
January 4, 2009
December 25, 2008
- My letter to President-elect Obama
