I hung out my first load of laundry ever. Maddie handed me the pins and the clothes and I hung them up. Now I just need to find those poles to hold it up. I'll probably make one myself ( Read more... )

"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

I usually post this to a book community but I unsubbed. I had too many communities. I didn't reach my goal of 50. I would have but I read nothing from September 18th until just the last week of December. I finished my first new book on the 31st. I had re-read Fellowship because it was a safe mental place. I'll cut this for those who don't ( Read more... )

My favorite scene from my favorite version of my favorite Christmas book. It's not the complete scene but enough. I have watched this movie on Christmas Eve for the last nine years. This is the first year I will watch it alone. I'm quite sure I'll still feel the same thing as I have for near the last decade. There are just some things that ( Read more... )

Writing a lesson plan on The Holocaust is probably the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

And I have to teach it to the class.

How am I going to make it through without weeping when I can't even watch the end scene of Schindler's List (which is one of the lessons) without breaking down.

I sure picked a doozy for myself, didn't I.

Perhaps ( Read more... )

The Library says we took out a book called Guji Guji. It's a children's book. They say we never returned it. I flipped through a copy online and I've never seen this book before in my life. I've searched high and low and this book does not exist...at least in my household. However, the records say we took it out and I will purchase a new copy ( Read more... )

The last one. ::sigh:: I love the Allen High choir. I was a member of it for two years. Missed Chorale because I had too hard a time harmonizing. Hey, I said I could sing. I didn't say I could sing with other people.

Each year the senior class picks out a song and sings it by themselves. This year they chose May It Be by Enya from The Lord ( Read more... )

I'm reading the novel The Soloist by Steve Lopez. I'm sure a bunch of you have probably seen the trailers for the movie with Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Fox. It's the true story about a musician struggling with homelessness and schizophrenia and the journalist who befriends him ( Read more... )

From sundown yesterday until sundown tonight is Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day ( Read more... )

I do not watch any of those American Idol type shows. Ever. This was sent to me by a friend. It's a clip from Britain's Got Talent. If you have about 4 or 5 minutes, watch it. It made me misty. Not just the song and the performance but the fact that no one thought this woman had a chance because of her age and looks. It proved just how ( Read more... )