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Downsizing - I don't recommend it.

My posts have been few and far between the past year. In fact, I didn't write a word from September 2024 to April 2025. Instead, we bought a small house (1500 square feet on a slab), lived through a five-month gut remodel down to the cement (or is it concrete)? I always get it wrong) slab, while we donated, gave away, sold twenty-five years of accumulated belongings in our 4,000 square foot home a Read more of this blog post »

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M.J. Werthman White wrote a new blog post Downsizing - I don't recommend it. My posts have been few and far between the past year. In fact, I didn't write a word from September 2024 to April 2025. Instead, we bought a small hou Read more of this blog post »
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M.J. White rated a book it was amazing Like Human by Janet Goldberg (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The reader is struck again and again, not by the darkness of these compulsively readable stories but by how often even the smallest light can illuminate all.
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The reader is struck again and again, not by the darkness of these compulsively readable stories but by how often even the smallest light can illuminate all.
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M.J. White rated a book it was amazing The Proprietor's Song by Janet Goldberg (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Janet Goldberg’s novel, The Proprietor’s Song, traces the annual journey of a couple revisiting the place their son disappeared, staying at a motel where the owner is trying to unravel the mystery of his own sister’s death. The landscape of the harsh ...more
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Thomas Wolfe tells us that you can't go home again. In Janice Deal’s engrossing novel, “The Sound of Rabbits” we discover what can happen when circumstances force you to try. Two sisters, Val, who never left their small town, and Ruby, living in Chic ...more
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Tracy Buchanan has written a compulsively readable novel with characters that win your heart despite (or because of) their all-too-relatable human flaws, chief among them the irascible introvert, Minerva Place, haunter of graveyards and teller of the ...more
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M.J. White rated a book it was amazing Food Fight by Linda B. Davis (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Ben Snyder is in middle school. He has issues. (Did I say he is in middle school?) One of those issues is an eating disorder that has an impressive number of initials as a descriptor. But this is not an “issue” story with a neatly tied-up “after scho ...more
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