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March / 2015 / Therese Vannier
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Author of The Long Way. Monthly Archives: March 2015. March 13, 2015. Kingsman: The Secret Service. Matthew Vaughn delivers a slick and slightly misbehaving piece of mainstream entertainment in. An homage to everyone’s favorite spy. This rude romp embraces all the wackiest aspects of the. Series while lovingly abusing it at the same time. Kill Bill Vol. 2. The film teeters on the edge of graphic novel subversion and goofy offensiveness. If you have a hankering for dark and perverse humour, buy a tick...
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November / 2013 / Therese Vannier
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Author of The Long Way. Monthly Archives: November 2013. November 11, 2013. Let’s Talk About The Sad Tree and Pronuba. The desert is a lonely place for Joshua, a tree who has never seen another tree like him. He asks everyone in his environment to help him find a companion…but although the desert loves him, nobody can help. Things change for Joshua one beautiful spring night when he gets a very special visitor. Christina Steiner’s new illustrated children’s book is titled. The Sad Tree and Pronuba. Stein...
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March / 2014 / Therese Vannier
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Author of The Long Way. Monthly Archives: March 2014. March 4, 2014. I can’t make it through Fat Tuesday without listening to this nonsensical song at least a hundred times. Iko Iko is a much covered tune that tells of a parade collision between two tribes. The song, under the original title “Jock-A-Mo,” was written in 1953 by James “Sugar Boy” Crawford (love that name) in New Orleans. James “Sugar Boy” Crawford (1934-2012). Big Chief Allison “Tootie” Montana. The fairest of them all. Sugar Boy says, ...
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November / 2014 / Therese Vannier
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Author of The Long Way. Monthly Archives: November 2014. November 17, 2014. Bang on the Jazz Drum All Day. The last and probably only Hollywood film ever made about a jazz drummer was. The Gene Krupa Story. 1959) Jazz critics called the film “ludicrous” and “inaccurate.” Still, the film managed to inspire thousands of young musicians including Peter Criss (Catman) of KISS. It’s taken the silver screen 55 years to recover from all that noise. Yeah, he had a few. The minor subplots of family feud and a bri...
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October / 2013 / Therese Vannier
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Author of The Long Way. Monthly Archives: October 2013. October 30, 2013. We received word that Amazon’s Matchbook program is up and running. When a publisher signs up for Matchbook, they are able to offer the Kindle version of a title at a discounted price to people who purchased the print version from Amazon. To you for free. We also signed up for Amazon’s Book Lending Program which means you can lend The Long Way to friends and family. Comments Off on FREE stuff! October 2, 2013. There are five steps ...
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January / 2014 / Therese Vannier
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Author of The Long Way. Monthly Archives: January 2014. January 4, 2014. Birding – A Game for One or More Players. Birding in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. I began birdwatching as a young child in the urban parks of Los Angeles and Orange County. My earliest bird encounters took place close to home at the El Dorado Park Nature Center. A 19th-century painting of three children playing hide and seek in a forest. My favorite is Sibley’s. Guide A notebook for recording observations and a bird check list are also useful...
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August / 2015 / Therese Vannier
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Author of The Long Way. Monthly Archives: August 2015. August 7, 2015. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015). Please, don’t call it a crush. I’m naturally attracted to hard working over-achievers who just get it. Tom Cruise understands how to connect with the audience. “Hey, we’re not so different. Heights are frightening. Haboobs are a pain in the ass and it’s gonna hurt like hell when I slam my face into the side of the wall. Uff! Back for another explosion of extravagant stunts in Mission: Impossi...
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Author of The Long Way. Click the buttons below to follow Therese on Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads. It will be fun! Buy The Long Way. A fine historical fantasy tale featuring a memorable, tenacious protagonist. Hell or High Water: Hell of a Good Time. The Twelve Flicks of Christmas (More Naughty and Less Nice). Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015). Kingsman: The Secret Service. Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Ultimate in Science Fiction. Therese cooks at The Chubby Spoon.
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April / 2014 / Therese Vannier
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Author of The Long Way. Monthly Archives: April 2014. April 28, 2014. On April 28, 1869, the Central Pacific railroad crews laid 10 miles of track in one day. The graded path stretched beyond their range of vision. If the crews could deliver on the boast of the railroad’s promoters to lay ten miles of rail in a single day, they would claim an unbeatable record. Progress that day was phenomenal. At a pace that one might average on a day’s walk, the Iron Horse was galloping across the desert....Although th...
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