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The words are moving
I will be moving much of the commentary and musings I wrote in Live Journal to this site. Thank you for following along.
Biography
GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido GraceAnne A. DeCandido is a writer, reviewer, and editor, now mostly retired. She taught children’s and young adult literature classes for Rutgers SC&I online for over a decade, as well as two specialized classes Female Voices in … Continue reading
What I thought and what I wrote
I have brought together speeches and essays and musings, to this place on the web, so I could keep it together, and so it is. Personal stuff is mostly on Facebook, and on LiveJournal, where I write as Girasole. Blessings … Continue reading
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Just an April note
I am still here. The words remain. Did not want you to think I wasn’t. There is some personal stuff at http://girasole.livejournal.com/ if you want to read that.
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading
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from a poem by …
from a poem by Visar Zhiti: Seize Bolts of lightning from the sky And plant them in fields of life. They will grow like tender sprouts of fire. Charge somber thoughts With unexpected flash, You, my lightning in the soil! … Continue reading
Lightning and stars
It’s not a battle. It’s a journey lit and fueled by lightning, then illuminated by stars.
“The books that…
“The books that we give to children, that are written for children, say profound things about how we view ourselves as people, how we see our place in the world, how we construct time and space. The deepest underlying matrix … Continue reading
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Giles: Hero Librarian
Rupert Giles and Search Tools for Wisdom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer first published in 1999 I am not alone in the belief that the appearance of school librarian Rupert Giles on television’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer has done more … Continue reading
Words Are All We Have: A Very Brief Disquisition on Librarians, Technology, Access, Feminism, and The Truths of Things
American Theological Library Association Plenary Speaker presentation, June 23, 2001 Words Are All We Have: A Very Brief Disquisition on Librarians, Technology, Access, Feminism, and The Truths of Things Some wise person has said — I may have said it … Continue reading
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