This #LetsBlogOff topic is really a toughy: What’s the best book you ever read? I read every night, much to my husband’s frustration. If it’s a particularly good book, I can sit out on the patio all evening and not realize it’s past bedtime. Our main issue regarding my reading habit is that I rarely want to […]
Monthly Archives: August 2011
It’s time to prepare myself. I am actually leaving the country. And amazingly, it’s not because of the impending elections of 2012 and my inability to comprehend how on earth ANY of those people can be for real. I believe our political system has been hijacked by a BRAVO TV series, and the whole thing is […]
Like apparently almost everyone else in the world I read The Help, and raced to see the movie last weekend. My friends, Max and Tony, had already been treated to a preview showing two weeks before the opening and were raving about it – actually to the point I was afraid my expectations were going to […]
School is starting. But not for me. No more urging a sleepy teenager out of the house at 7:15 a.m. and repeating all the way to school, “What? What? Are you talking? Are you moving your lips? Are you sure you’re moving your lips? Well, I don’t think you are. Austin, enunciate! Speak. Up!!” Nope. No […]
Family Reunion Summary – Gulf Shores, AL and surrounding area: Arrived Saturday evening and was picked up at the airport by my husband. We stopped at what was referred to as a “liquor store,” but was in fact more of a dust store that happened to have some bottles of booze in it. We bought […]
Growing up, my family had a reunion maybe every 5 years. We’d meet at some convenient location for the day, and go away again for another 5 years. We stopped the whole thing when I was still pretty young, so I’m not sure what out-of-towners did after those exhilarating few hours. Maybe that explains why […]
This week’s #Let’sBlogOff topic is: What one thing did you really want when you were a kid? When I was 5, I longed for consistency and fairness. I had multiple stuffed animals and it was heart wrenchingly important that each had their turn in the rotation to sleep directly beside me. Otherwise, I was hurting […]
