“Sales associate” sounds so antiseptic but I’m allergic to trendy monikers like “dream weaver.” Whatever we call the multi-tasking team here that keeps this ship afloat – Kimberlee, Amy, Patti, Robin, and Diana, the mail-out queen that wraps your packages so carefully – Beth and I are grateful beyond words. We are looking to hire a new staff member here and find it hard to even know what to call the opening. Some people romanticize bookstore work, but our staff could quickly tell you about the difficulties here day by day. And those of us whose wages are on the lower end can’t afford to decline any overtime we might be offered. Restaurant workers, preachers, many health care providers, law enforcement personnel, those who work in the media, and those in retail may have to work extra hours this weekend to commemorate the significance of their labor. As we are heading into the Labor Day weekend, some of us will have some time off.
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Just because the earth goddess duped one of my progeny - Octavian - into plunging the Greek and Roman demigods into a civil war that nearly destroyed human civilization. "My Father's voice still rings in my ears. First edition of The Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan: Apollo seeks help from Camp Half-Blood after he's angered his father, Zeus, who cast him to earth to live as a teenage mortal, complete with acne. That meant that it made ideal bedtime reading as each chapter is complete in itself. but gradually realised that it was, effectively, a set of linked short stories rather than a novel as such. I did rather find myself wondering when the story was going to start, after several of what seemed like introductory chapters. even though this was written in 2002 as a contemporary book. If the book is to be believed, towns like Harmony are apparently still rather clinging to life in the mid-20th century. There are undoubtedly some caricatures, but even so it gives a lovely set of cameos of life in small-town America. Over the course of the book, we get to know the stories behind several of his neighbours and friends, and see how daily life happens for the different people. And what a charming book this is! Sam, a young Quaker minister, returns to Harmony, his home town in the US. I was given 'Home to Harmony' for my birthday a couple of weeks ago, and have just finished reading it apparently it's the first in a series. I don't remember exactly how I came across his books, but it was a recommendation from either an online friend or perhaps Amazon, after I had read and thoroughly enjoyed the books by Jan Karon (starting with ' At Home in Mitford'). I didn't even know that Quaker meetings had pastors. He is, apparently, a Quaker minister in the USA. 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