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Although it can be quite alarming just how crazy Gavin is over Thomas and Friends, I’ve discovered that there are benefits to having a child that is mad about a specific subject.  Because of these benefits, I have been actively encouraging his interest in Thomas the Tank Engine.  These are 7 ways that Thomas and Friends have helped us: 1.

Magdalena Ball owns and manages The Compulsive Reader - her award winning short stories, editorials, poetry, reviews & articles have appeared in a wide number of printed anthologies & journals. She is the author of the mystery novel Sleep Before Evening, Quark Soup, and a nonfiction book entitled - The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything.

Of the reading of books there is no end… John H Saturday 6th September, AD 2008 I’ve been sorting through my “to-read shelf†(OK, shelves) of unread books. I have a bad habit of buying more books than I read: even after thinning some out which I’m never going to get round to, the remaining books on the shelf are as follows.

The Fire Island Pines Arts Project, a non-profit organization promoting the arts in the Fire Island gay summer community, just released its first-ever cookbook, Into the Pines Kitchen. The cookbook is filled with recipes from Pines residents, gay, straight, young, and old.

The World Health Organization has just issued the final report of the “Marmot Commission†on Social Determinants of Health: “The development of a society, rich or poor, can be judged by the quality of its population’s health, how fairly health is distributed across the social spectrum, and the degree

Sam Smith has run a poetry magazine (The Journal) & operated a small press (Original Plus) for 14 years now. Sam has written numerous published books in the crime, mystery, historical novel and poetry genres including - however today we will hear Sam reading excerpts from two poetry books: To Be Like John Clare (University Press) -&- Problems and Polemics (Boho Press).

“Auditions†by Barbara Walters Even before you read one word of Barbara’s book, you understand what a remarkable life she has led. Printed inside the front and back covers are the names of all the people she has interviewed–the famous and the infamous.

I was surprised by my youngest son this morning. He came up to me and asked me, "Mommy? Abre mo please?", while holding up an old remote he was playing with. I stared at him and tried hard to decipher what in the world he was trying to say.

Thanks to Slublog and Ace for the Photo “We’re not going to be bullied, we’re not going to be smeared, we’re not going to be lied about,†Obama said. “I don’t believe in coming in second.†What does that mean?  He doesn’t believe in it or he doesn’t like it?  He need not worry about that though, because, as Ace points out: Don’t worry, Princess.

FOX News, of all places, reports on the fact that Sherry Jones, author of The Jewel of Medina, has found a publisher for her book. Random House, her original publisher, infamously dropped her book from their list last month, in fear of retribution from Muslim extremists.