All four of us all gathered for dinner and pumpkin carving tonight. Since our boys were old enough to carve, we've had four pumpkins to light up the porch on Halloween night every year except one. A few years back, our oldest surly youth had moved into the rental house, scheduling was tricky so he said he'd pass, no big deal. That Halloween night, ( Read more... )

My business partner got me a fun book for Christmas: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

It's really pretty cool. Of course, any list like this is subjective, but I love lists. It's broken down into time segments: Pre-1800s, 1800s, 1900s, and 2000s. There's a title index, an author index, and a general index and it's almost 1,000 pages thick!

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I can't take credit for finding this, hubby posted it first on his facebook page.

But it's the perfect theme song for all the untethered shenanigans of politicians like Weiner, Schwarzenegger, Edwards, and our own Chris Lee:

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Maybe you all know about this (in which case I'll be thoroughly peeved that you didn't tell me) but for all you writerly people out there, you've got to check out this website:

http://freerice.com/index.php

C’mon, you know you need an additional distraction in your life. The benefits are threefold:

1. You will actually accomplish something of ( Read more... )

I rarely do this, but I liked this one. Here's a YouTube clip of a mom condensing everything we as parents say in a 24-hour period into a performance lasting less than 3 minutes.

We had an awesome vacation; three days and two nights at Glen Iris Inn in Letchworth State Park. How do I measure our success? We all still liked each other at the end of the three days.

We ate well, we slept well, the weather was gorgeous. And while some of you thoroughbred hikers may question the level of difficulty of our walks, I say we did some ( Read more... )

This doesn't surpise me, that my soul is colored purple. Look at my icon, and at the colors I chose when I customized my journal way back when. I hardly ever post these, but I got it from
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A friend wrote recently about finally deciding on the super power he'd go with, given the choice. He wrote:

But now I have discovered what may be the best super power of all--AND it's a power I could actually have if I wanted it bad enough. It would be the power to say at will exactly what I think of anyone.

It came to him after watching the t.v. ( Read more... )