Henry story - a fast-paced tale with a neat ironic twist at the end.įor decades I have not had enough space for my book collection. They'll be arriving this Wednesday, which means I have to hit the laundromat again this afternoon - or go out and pound the clothes against rocks in the duck pond!Įveryone likes an O. So I ended up ordering them from a different department store, where the wait is 'only' ten days. Well, I did go to the store and order a new washer and dryer but was told they wouldn't arrive for a month! 'A month?' I gasped - and the saleswoman said one sometimes has to wait one to four months for a dryer these days.

Now you're probably wondering why I'm going to the laundromat instead of just buying new appliances. Maybe I'm not having as much trouble with them as Ramona did:īut it's still a pain dragging bags of dirty clothes to the laundromat every couple days. It doesn't help that the washer and dryer are broken. In other words: I'm still living out of bags and boxes, some of my books remain unshelved, and I'm still behind, behind on everything. I'm always planning to get things done in time, but there always seems to be a slip between intention and execution. But even more than that, because the saying is so true.

First, as a kid, for the thrill of seeing a 'bad word' in a Newbery-winning novel.

Well, as Charles Wallace says in A WRINKLE IN TIME, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.' And I intended to have photos of my 'library' to include in today's blog. When I wrote that blog, I fully intended to be 'back in business' very soon - perhaps posting one or two more entries later that week. He gets the 2018 Rolen treatment on this ballot in a bid to feel more confident than a vote today feels.Thanks to everyone who read and commented on my last blog. But if you made a case for Vladimir Guerrero, and that was an easy vote here, Abreu is in Guerrero’s neighborhood. His power, batting grace, and wiles in taking walks are Hall-worthy. ► Abreu: He will be placed in a garlic-ginger-soy marinade with thoughts a year or more from now that Abreu’s numbers could appear more delectable than they do in 2019. ► Kent: This is complicated, because his bat was so hefty, but the more deeply one crunches a host of numbers (55.4 WAR, shaky defense, etc.), Kent simply falls a brick shy. The WAR of 60.5 is tied to his lamentable defense. It diminished by too much his bat, which was more like an assault rifle during his 22 years in the big leagues, two of which were spent in Detroit.

The Shy Ones by Lynn Hall