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Today’s Newspaper Article by Me: Resolutions Can Be Exciting Rather Than Demoralizing
By Polly Castor on January 2, 2010Read moreI am a regular writer for the Danbury News Times Forum on Faith Series. Here is today’s column:
20Goodbye VW (last decade); Hello SAAB (next decade)
By Polly Castor on January 1, 2010Read moreA new decade seems like practically a whole new epoch. This is all symbolized for me right now by...
Best of 2009
By Polly Castor on December 31, 2009Read moreThis website and daily blog have been going for a year! Thank you so much for your continued readership....
Movie Review: The Young Victoria
By Polly Castor on December 30, 2009Read moreWe really enjoyed this new movie about the young Queen Victoria and give it five stars. It beautifully portrays...
My 20th Wedding Anniversary
By Polly Castor on December 29, 2009Read moreI had a wonderful day. It helped that we had no big expectations of it. We needed to take...
Tenth Page Done in My New Box-A-Day Art Journal
By Polly Castor on December 28, 2009Read moreThis page represents December 17, 2009 to December 28, 2009 See close-up entries below. Enjoy!
Movie Review: The Visitor
By Polly Castor on December 27, 2009Read morethe question of what makes life meaningful, as well as a study in the universal language of music. I...
New Poem by Me: Immaculate One
By Polly Castor on December 25, 2009Read moreImmaculate One Self (innocent, perfect, pure) conscious (cognizant, alert, attentive, sentient) communion (trustingly at one) with God (inseparable omniscient...
Seasonal Scribbles
By Polly Castor on December 24, 2009Read moreThese three pages of jottings in my journal were done in church as the celebration of Jesus’ birth approached…...
Christmas Pears
By Polly Castor on December 23, 2009Read moreThe indulgence of these pears at Christmastime is a family tradition for us. They are amazingly succulent, tantalizingly sweet...
Movie Review: Pay It Forward
By Polly Castor on December 22, 2009Read moreThe assignment to the seventh grade social studies class is to have an idea that will change the world...
New Poem by Me: Virginia’s 18th Birthday
By Polly Castor on December 20, 2009Read moreVirginia’s 18th Birthday My oldest turned 18 quietly and without fanfare. She danced in her day at an end-of-the-term...