I learned about a site today called bookcrossing.com that is the “Where’s George?” for books.  You leave a book for a new person to read, they read it and pass it along where its adventure through the world is tracked online!

The site says the following…

BookCrossing is earth-friendly, and gives you a way to share your books, clear your shelves, and conserve precious resources at the same time. Through our own unique method of recycling reads, BookCrossers give life to books. A book registered on BookCrossing is ready for adventure.

Leave it on a park bench, a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a

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We live in a world where the Internet is nearly everywhere we go. 

This means blogs are also nearly everywhere we go!  We can start at our own blog and click a link in the blogroll in order to weave through as many blogs as our brains can handle.  Sometimes it’s to see things like this or that!  Sometimes we learn things we didn’t know yesterday!  Sometimes we learn nothing at all and the only things gained are exercised eyes! 

I have certainly read enough blogs for the entire state of Illinois.  I’ve learned a lot from blogs too!  For instance, as mathy (one of my great made up …

You know you’ve been anxiously awaiting our second installment of 5 Questions for HOKers.  Today’s feature is Esther Simon, the one and only prickly pear of HOK. 

Q: Tell us about your background.

A: I came to the United States from Israel about 30 years ago.  I have a great desire to be part of a larger community – I think this desire was formed in Israel, where there was a great sense of community due in part

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