Claire Conger

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Claire's Original Art Greeting Cards
There is nothing that says I care like a real snail-mail greeting card!
Click on a picture above for a plain-paper printable greeting card pdf. Print on regular 8.5 by 11 printer paper. Fold twice so that the art is on the front and the title and copyright are on the back. Write your greeting on the inside. Mail in an A2 Invitation Envelope.
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Entries from July 2009

An Inconvenient Truth: Snowball Earth

July 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Al Gore leads the charge for reducing green house gas emissions with his lecture An Inconvenient Truth, but the really inconvenient truth is told in Snowball Earth by Gabrielle Walker (2003). Basically, we’re doomed.

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Tags: Movies Worth Watching · Non Fiction

Stephen King’s Backstory Well Done in Carrie

July 28th, 2009 · No Comments

I tried hard to read Sue Monk Kidd’s The Mermaid Chair and I just couldn’t do it. I got through 30 or so pages of the paperback and gave up, then I got through two discs on the sound recording and gave up. Why could I not read this book?

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Tags: Literary Fiction · Non Fiction

Selecting Your Child’s Class? Be Careful!

July 18th, 2009 · No Comments

As an eleven year old, I witnessed the carnage caused by a mother’s interference with her son’s placement. (See AP Article “Parental role in selecting child’s teacher up for debate” by Diana Marszalek that appeared 17 July 2009 in the San Francisco Chronicle.)

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