I left off after the birth of cub 1. Now I’ll tell the story of the birth of cub 2! I’ll call cub 1 the bear and cub 2 the badger, which is what their grandma has dubbed them. The story of the badgers birth begins on a Friday morning after work. I have an […]

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I was listening to The Little Drummer Boy and I thought it was weird that he said Jesus was a poor boy. Joseph was presumably a successful carpenter, or else we wouldn’t still be talking about him as a carpenter now. They didn’t stay in the stable because they were poor, they stayed because they […]

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Adding to the family can mean learning a lot about your entire family. In a most generally optimistic and pleasant sense, you learn how much you all love and care for each other. But there are individual lessons one will learn depending on their own experience. For example, I learned that not only could I […]

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For Ridinghood, it was much like any other morning.  She woke up, greased her joints, and went into the kitchen.  She poured motor oil over her honey and nut flavored cereal, and sat down to eat.  As usual, her parents were already awake. This morning, however, they looked oddly nervous.  Red asked them what was […]

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A few weeks ago, my brother texted me, asking if I wanted to play(in my case, learn) Dungeons and Dragons. I said “sure!” I can’t remember what got me started on it but I’ve been listening to the Drunks and Dragons Podcast for about a month now (I started at the very beginning guys, I’ve […]

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Chapter 1 Crozier October, 1847 So, I was wrong already! The chapters are not character POV! The chapters focus on a single character, but are narrated by an omniscient 3rd person narrator. This chapter takes place, I think, about 2 years after the voyage began. Captain Crozier is the focus in this chapter. He’s coming […]

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The Terror By: Dan Simmons First: obviously, spoilers.   So, I decided to read this book because my mom was watching the series on AMC. I was listening while she gave me dad a sort of play-by-play of what had just happened before the commercial break.  She said something about a polar bear knocking off […]

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Just to see if it works.  I hope this was a good idea!  May the children forgive me.

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