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Updated 2/8/2011

The picture is of my Newfoundland, Tasha, in her favorite place - a pick-up truck.

Pithy saying of the day: A positive attitude may not solve all your problems but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright



I did an interview with our local NPR station about bookcrossing. To get to the interview use the link and then on the right hand side click on "All previous features". My interivew was in January of 2006. This is the link for that: WPSU radio interview


And, since no good deed goes unpunished - the local PBS TV station has asked me to do a piece on bookcrossing. It took me 2 weeks to work up the nerve to listen to the very well done radio piece. I can't imagine how long it will take me to work up the nerve to look at myself. I have the CD with the show on it and if my husband ever gets to work on my personal web page I'll have him up load there.

Both of the OBCZ's in State College have closed but I still have plenty of books and supplies so if anyone has any ideas just PM me.

I have started a Yahoo Group for anyone that wants to join. You can either use the button below or PM your e-mail address and I'll send you an invite. In the files section I have some of the labels I have made and some that other people also have made. If you want to download them, you have to be a member, but you can also quit the group whenever you want.

Click to join Central PABookCrossing



Very appropriate quote (came with one of my word of the day e-mails):

"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum...When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold." Henry Miller -novelist

And another one: "In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you." Mortimer J. Adler - philosopher, educator and author.

Personal Stuff: I own two Newfoundland dogs (big 120-140 pound waterdogs), Lyekka and Jack and two housecats, Zaphod and Beeblebrox and far, far too many books but I just can't help myself. We recently had customized floor to ceiling bookshelves built for our spare bedroom to deal with all the books and they are already full and overflowing.

From another BC shelf I found out about Library Thing and have started entering our extensive collection of science fiction there. I consider anything there that doesn't have a BCID as our permanent collection but if there is something there that you just can't live without reading PM, I MIGHT lend it.
My Books at Library Thing


My Wish List - wanna trade? (from cliff1976 - THANKS CLIFF)




And for those that like to surprise people, I am listed and current on RABCK.com (and not planning on moving anytime soon).



Currently reading:
Revalation and E=MC2 A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation.


I am happy to share books that are set as available by me but I prefer to trade or be re-imbursed the cost of postage (I have a PayPal account). However, I'm not beyond doing a RABCK for a book someone really wants but make a good case to me. I would request that my books be passed on eventually since that's what I'm here for. If you plan to make a the book part of your Private Collection let me know. It doesn't necessarily mean I won't trade you the book since it depends on a lot of things, but I don't want books I intended to travel to be PC'd. I can afford to do some long distance shipping and like the thought of distributing my books far and wide.




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