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R.I.P. Mr. Jiggs, my kitty =^..^= 7/21/07
R.I.P. Samsel aka Sammy, my kitty =^..^= 9/2/08

A list of all of my sweet kitties:
#1 R.I.P. Fluff, 1978 (age 6)
#2 R.I.P. Stinker, 1980 (stray, age 5-6?)
#3 R.I.P. Blackie, 1993 (age 19)
#4 R.I.P. Beowulf, 1987 (age 16)
#5 R.I.P. Nala, 1999 (age 12)
#6 R.I.P. Windstar, 9/13/11 (age 13)
#7 R.I.P. Sally, 2002 (rescue, age ?)
#8 R.I.P., Mr. Jiggs, 7/21/07 (rescue, age?)
#9 R.I.P., Samsel aka Sammy, 9/2/08 (stray, age?)
#10 Adventure aka Addie, born Mother’s Day, 2008
#11 Mystery aka Mystie, born Mother’s Day, 2008

I am not active on BCing any more. I have released a LOT of books WITHOUT making them TRAVELING. So please don't ask me for a book, because I have very few books at home. Thanks.

I use photographs of books liberally - whether or not they match up with the actual title of the book.

I've been diagnosed with breast cancer, January, 2007...Praise God! I am a cancer survivor!

I gave myself "WINGS FOR A YEAR!" JULY/2005 TO JULY/2006
Someone graciously "wung" me in August, 2006. Thanks so much!!
I gave myself "WINGS FOR A YEAR!" OCTOBER/2006 TO OCTOBER/2007
Someone graciously "wung" me in November, 2007. Thanks so much!!
I gave myself "WINGS FOR A YEAR!" JANUARY/2008 TO JANUARY/2009
I gave myself "WINGS FOR A YEAR!" JANUARY/2009 TO JANUARY/2010

Mr. Jiggs and Samsel (Sammy) are two of my cats.
I have a bookshelf for =^..^= each =^..^=

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1,000th Registered Book: Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World, by Rita Golden Gelman
2,000th Registered Book: The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, by Caroline Alexander, Frank Hurley (Photographer)
3,000th Registered Book: Black and White and Red All Over: The Story of a Friendship, by Martha McNeil Hamilton and Warren Brown
4,000th Registered Book: A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean, by Melinda and Robert Blanchard
5,000th Registered Book: The Schopenhauer Cure: a Novel, by Irvin D. Yalom
6,000th Registered Book: God @ Ground Zero: How Good Overcame Evil...One Heart at a Time, by "Chaplain Ray" Giunta
7,000th Registered Book: An Island Garden, by Celia Thaxter



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Some of my favorite "reads":

~The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thad Carhart ~Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a DublinWoman by Nuala O'Faolain ~Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports From My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin, Foreword by Oliver Sacks ~Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry~My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult ~Letters to a Young Therapist: Stories of Hope and Healing by Mary Pipher~Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher~Soul of a Chef: The Journey Towards Perfection by Michael Ruhlman~A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean by Melinda Blanchard, Robert Blanchard ~84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff,Frank Doel, Marks & Co ~Black and White and Red All Over by Martha McNeil Hamilton, Warren Brown (kidney transplant donation between co-workers) ~Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in theWorld by Rita Golden Gelman ~The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin D. Yalom ~Glimpses of the Devil: a Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism, and Redemption~Touching My Father's Soul: a Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest by Jamling Tenzing Norgay and Broughton Coburn; introduction by Jon Krakauer; foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama~Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch by Dan O'Brien ~The Climb Up to Hell: the Story of the Tragic 1957 Ordeal on the Eiger North Wall ---One of the Most Awesome Dramas in Mountaineering History by Jack Olsen ~Last Man Standing: the Tragedy & Triumph of Geronimo Pratt by Jack Olsen ~Winterdance: the Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen ~A Child called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive: an Abused Child's Journey from Victim to Victor by Dave Pelzer ~Against All Odds: a Tale of Two Survivors: Norman Salsitz and Amalie Petranker Salsitz ~Darkness Visible: a Memoir of Madness by William Styron ~Among the Isles of Shoals...An Island Garden...and, Celia's Island Journal...all by Celia Thaxter~The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition ~The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse ~Candyfreak: a Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond ~A Matter of Accountability: the True Story of the Pueblo Affair by Trevor Armbrister ~Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence by Claudia Brenner with Hannah Ashley~Magic Kingdom for Sale---Sold! [Magic Kingdom of Landover Series] by Terry Brooks ~Good Morning Midnight: Life and Death in the Wild by Chip Brown ~Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson, performed on Aud Cass/CD by Ron McClarty (be sure and get Ron's performance!!) ~The Parrot Who Owns Me: the Story of a Relationship ~Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer ~Where is the Mango Princess? by Cathy Crimmins ~Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Any Hill Hearth~Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich ~Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and Beautiful by Susan Fales-Hill ~My Sister Life: the Story of My Sister's Disappearance by Maria Flook ~God @ Ground Zero: How Good Overcame Evil...One Heart at a Time by "Chaplain Ray" Giunta~Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language by Nora Ellen Groce ~The Island of Lost Maps: a True Story of Cartographic Crime by Harvey Miles ~Modoc: the True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived by Ralph Helfer ~Hannah's Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived by Maria Housden ~The True History of the Elephant Man by Michael Howell & Peter Ford ~A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel ~Angry Housewives Eating BonBons by Lorna Landvik ~Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy