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Today’s Newspaper Article by me: (Christian Science and Doctors)
By Polly Castor on June 25, 2011Read moreI am a regular contributor to the Danbury News Times Forum on Faith column, which is also picked up...
20Bananagram Mania
By Polly Castor on June 24, 2011Read moreWe’ve been playing Bananagrams often since we started six months ago, many days a week playing it after a...
The Charter Oak
By Polly Castor on June 23, 2011Read moreI love this story about how here in Connecticut they hid the charter in an oak tree, but I...
Photos of People I Don’t Know
By Polly Castor on June 22, 2011Read moreI can’t help it: I love people. One way or another, I collect them wherever I go. The quartet...
Printmaking by David Driskell
By Polly Castor on June 21, 2011Read moreI loved this retrospective of printmaker David Driskell!
I Hosted my First Used Curriculum Sale
By Polly Castor on June 20, 2011Read moreI have a good friend Christine (of The Thinking Mother Blog – click here) who is moving to...
New Poem by me: My Dad
By Polly Castor on June 19, 2011Read moreMy Dad He met my mom (his deeply cherished wife of 63 years) in high school Latin class;...
Movie Review: Mr. Popper’s Penguins
By Polly Castor on June 18, 2011Read moreI loved this movie and give it a surprising five stars. We loved the book and this movie is...
Book Review: Quieter than Sleep
By Polly Castor on June 17, 2011Read moreNot usually prone to murder mysteries, here is one I enjoyed. It is a light summer read that I’d...
Recent Food
By Polly Castor on June 16, 2011Read moreI appreciate beautiful, fresh, delicious food. Here’s what we’ve eaten lately. Other than various tuna veggie melts and multiple...
Photos of Discovery Bound Weekend
By Polly Castor on June 14, 2011Read moreThese photos are of my kids enjoying their Discovery Bound (our church youth group) weekend in Boston. I did...
Movie Review: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
By Polly Castor on June 13, 2011Read moreIn 1994, the Chauvet Cave in France was discovered with remarkable prehistoric cave paintings in it dating back 40,000...