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Virginia McGee Butler

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My Writing Journey
Ezra Jack Keats & Me
Out & About Me
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Readin’, Ritin’, but Not Much ‘Rithmetic

Virginia McGee Butler
November 23, 2020

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Virginia McGee Butler
November 23, 2020

In the world of readers, one thing tends to lead to another and if that weren’t enough, one reader leads to another. My sister Ruth led me to her friend Joan Creighton who became a reader of this blog.

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Virginia McGee Butler
November 20, 2020

Tattoos?

Virginia McGee Butler
November 20, 2020

As long as a writer sits alone with her words, there is no threat. However, there is something about producing those words and stringing them together that seems to call for sharing them, which brings up the next layer of wanting the very best words on the very best string.

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Virginia McGee Butler
November 16, 2020

Little Fires Everywhere

Virginia McGee Butler
November 16, 2020

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng opens near the end of the story with Isabelle (Izzy) Richardson burning down her family’s home.

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November 13, 2020

Finding Fall

Virginia McGee Butler
November 13, 2020

Roots in North Mississippi for me, in New Hampshire for my daughter-in-law, leave us looking at sad trees in South Mississippi. As green leaves turn brown and drop, we long for autumn.

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Virginia McGee Butler
November 9, 2020

Girls of Brakenhill

Virginia McGee Butler
November 9, 2020

Girls of Brackenhill, an intriguing newly published mystery by Kate Moretti, begins when Hannah Maloney is summonsed to her Aunt Fae’s death in a suspicious car accident.

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November 6, 2020

Fairy Tutus on the Lawn

Virginia McGee Butler
November 6, 2020

First, I will give the gist of the scientific explanation of the scene from my first walk of the day as the sun joins me in greeting the morning.

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November 2, 2020

William Still and His Freedom Stories

Virginia McGee Butler
November 2, 2020

On the front flap and the back cover of his new book, Don Tate says, “That’s what stories do. Protest injustice. Soothe. Teach. Inspire. Connect. Stories save lives.” Then he writes William Still and Hi

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Virginia McGee Butler
October 30, 2020

One Vote Counts

Virginia McGee Butler
October 30, 2020

My first vote was in the multigenerational Butler Country Store, converted for the day to a voting precinct. I was proud to become a part of the process.

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October 26, 2020

Eleanor

Virginia McGee Butler
October 26, 2020

Added to my love of biography and history, I had a personal reason for wanting to read the book that I review today. I remember as a child that people often said that Mama looked like Eleanor Roosevelt

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October 23, 2020

Pushing Send

Virginia McGee Butler
October 23, 2020

You haven’t asked about my favorite icon or tab to push on my computer, but I am going to tell you anyway. I love to push “send.”

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October 19, 2020

Little Women

Virginia McGee Butler
October 19, 2020

Looking back a year, celebrating a birthday during this pandemic took on a whole new look. Last year, sisters, children, grandchildren, and a niece gathered and went out to eat in a local restaurant specializing in Southern cuisine and had a splendid time, little knowing what the next year would bring.

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Virginia McGee Butler
October 16, 2020

The Comic Cardiologist

Virginia McGee Butler
October 16, 2020

To be fair, the cardiologist having only been aware of my history since he put three stents in my heart a year ago, did not intend to be funny. In order for you to recognize the joke when it comes, I will begin with a bit of backstory.

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Virginia McGee Butler
October 12, 2020

Desert Diary

Virginia McGee Butler
October 12, 2020

Michael Tunnell discovered a diary in the Utah State Historical Society in Salt Lake City, kept by a third grade class in the Topaz Camp in Utah. This group of Japanese American children wrote and drew pictures of the happenings during that year.

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Virginia McGee Butler
October 9, 2020

Not My Cat

Virginia McGee Butler
October 9, 2020

Barbed wire fences, in the country, are useful for marking off which part we have to mow and which part the neighbors have to mow. Dogs, Shetland ponies when they can discover an opening, kids, and cats pay little attention to these markers which brings me to today’s topic.

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Virginia McGee Butler
October 5, 2020

A Garden in Your Belly

Virginia McGee Butler
October 5, 2020

If you have never thought of a picture book about intestines and stomach contents, much less one that is clever and beautiful, get ready!

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October 2, 2020

Bridging the Gap

Virginia McGee Butler
October 2, 2020

My latest writing publication simmered in my head and has been whittled into several forms since the real-life occasion in my junior high classroom that inspired it a number of years ago.

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Virginia McGee Butler
September 28, 2020

Walk Toward the Rising Sun

Virginia McGee Butler
September 28, 2020

When a book begins with a six-year-old village boy in a dirt clearing watching his perfectly still uncle get six ritual lines sliced across his face with a sharp knife, you know the book is not set in Kansas.

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September 25, 2020

Nine Is for Pottery

Virginia McGee Butler
September 25, 2020

Ninth anniversary celebrations are marked by pottery to symbolize a simple natural element that is changed with careful work over time into a finished piece that is beautiful or useful, and sometimes both.

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Virginia McGee Butler
September 21, 2020

Avoid Blindness

Virginia McGee Butler
September 21, 2020

My photographed sign comes from the library where my writers group used to gather when we could still meet. It’s appropriate for this month when librarians and other book people discuss banned and challenged books.

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Virginia McGee Butler
September 18, 2020

Home Is . . .

Virginia McGee Butler
September 18, 2020

“Home is

where the Army sends you.”

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