Posted on January 31st, 2011
Folks, I’m sorry I haven’t blogged in a while. I’ve been feeling overpowered by life: among other things, reading The Hunger Games and finding that it consumed my brain to the extent that I was afraid to start the next book for fear of falling off the planet, AND now, report cards. I’m rather behind on [...]
Posted on January 23rd, 2011
Our latest book club meeting was to discuss When You Are Engulfed In Flames, by David Sedaris. We met at Williams Fresh Cafe (formerly known as Williams Coffee Pub), so it was a very casual atmosphere with considerably more gossip than book discussion. Some of us had read all of it, some only parts of [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2011
It is strange sometimes, living with a toddler. Small munchkin minds don’t work like adult minds. They are not bound by habit or traditional trains of thought. I still don’t get why E does many of the things he does, but I’m content to watch. Here are some examples of the randomness: E recently went [...]
Posted on January 16th, 2011
A friend of mine said her first reaction, upon hearing about the premise for The King’s Speech, was Why would anyone watch a movie about that? How can you even base a movie on something so boring? She was apparently not alone in this thought: even the Oscar buzz has not stopped some people wondering [...]
Posted on January 13th, 2011
You know you’re a big boy when you can fib, fake it, and use subterfuge. Our darling child is proving his progress to us with a variety of new skills. To heighten drama, he screws up his little face, makes a “huh-huh-huh” sound – and then says “Crying,” in case we didn’t get it. When [...]
Posted on January 7th, 2011
As promised ages ago, I have made y’all a playlist of “uppers”, as my brother calls them: songs that I put on when I need a mood-lifter, ones that are infectiously happy, or just have a melody that makes a body feel good. These are by no means the only 20 songs I would put [...]
Posted on January 4th, 2011
I realized after the last GGG book club meeting that I had never reported on previous meeting… OOPS! So here goes: two at once. Hope y’all can handle it. In November we read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Practically everybody in the world has read this, it seems. We were very [...]
