Musings...

• I miss bookstores. At one point, I lived close to six bookstores: Little Professor, Sam Wellers, Deseret Book, B. Dalton's, A Woman's Place Bookstore, and Walden Books. It was great. Then a few of those stores went out of business, but Borders and Barnes and Noble took their place. Still great. And now? Only two are left: Deseret Book and Barnes and Noble. And Deseret Book sells more games, CDs, DVDs, and other gift items than books. It's disheartening. And while I like Barnes and Noble, it's not the bookstore it once was. And that makes me sad.
• Down Fell the Doves by Amanda Shires is an amazing CD. Soulful and haunting. I've been listening to it all week.
• Library day ... and once again I checked out more books than I can possibly read in three weeks. I just can't seem to help myself. Books are my weakness.
• Speaking of the library, they just installed a new operating system at ours, and the new search engine is less than stellar. I typed in an author's name--Oliphant, Margaret--and it asked me if I meant "elephant margaritas". Really?
• (Spooky...at least 100 starlings just landed in my backyard. It's like a scene out of Hitchcock's The Birds...help.)
• If you haven't seen the movie The Monuments Men yet, go! The acting...the art...the story...it's definitely the must-see, don't-miss movie of 2014!!!