Cross-posted at TheSmartlyLA My son’s been out of college for almost four years. He lives 3000 miles from me, and about 1000 miles away from his dad’s hometown. He’s got a good job, his own apartment (no roommates!), his own activities and interests, and the occasional girlfriend (but not “the girlfriend,” at least not yet). He doesn’t own a car – he has chosen to live in a city where he doesn’t need one – […]
Image via Wikipedia I wish you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving Day, and hope you have at least a few – but hopefully many – things in your life to be grateful for and appreciative of this year! Today, I’m thankful for a long weekend, a dinner that won’t require much effort on my part (thanks to Tall Paul’s picking up for my slacking dislocated shoulder), and everyone who takes the time to share […]
Unstoppable in Stilettos: A Girl’s Guide to Living Tall in a Small World Lauren Ruotolo HCI (2010), Edition: 1, Paperback (ISBN 0757315143 / 9780757315145) Memoir/self-help, 200 pages Source: Publisher. via TLC Book Tours Reason for reading: Review/blog tour Opening Lines (Chapter 1): “Seventy-five steep white concrete steps separate me from my hotel room in Santorini, Greece. I know because I counted them. But the motivation to descend each step down the cliff, where my hotel […]
Looking for Alaska John Green Speak/Penguin (2006), Paperback (ISBN 0142402516 / 9780142402511) Fiction (YA), 256 pages Source: Personal/purchased copy Reason for reading: None in particular; new-to-me author, but a book-blogger favorite Opening lines: “The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party. To say that I had low expectations would be to underestimate […]
Weekend Assignment # 245: Give Thanks Thanksgiving is upon us, the time of year when we’re asked what we’re thankful for. Let’s take the opportunity to interpret this literally, and actually thank someone! Tell us about someone in your life, past or present, whom you would like to thank for what they did, and why. Given the way the second half of 2010 has gone, it wasn’t hard for me to decide who deserves special […]
Year-end is fast approaching, like it or not, and one sign of that is the arrival of the Lists. Because I’m once again nursing a dislocated shoulder and not up to a lot of (one-handed) writing, I thought they’d make a good cut-and-paste post topic for this week’s Sunday Salon. Amazon.com got a head start on the 2010 best-book recaps, announcing its Editors’ Top 10 in October. The editors’ choices mixed fiction and nonfiction, and […]
More sights to see while walking down Hollywood Boulevard… Oh, too bad – we missed the AFI Fest! Over-indulge in the Botox, and you just might end up here When you think “Hollywood,” what image comes to your mind? Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 2,318 other subscribers
It’s a two-for-one special today, but they’re vaguely related: What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have? Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. (But I’m much better at writing it, IMO.) You are also good at remembering information and convincing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique […]
If you were on Twitter Saturday afternoon, you might have seen this: @florinda_3rs Florinda Pend.-Vasq. Guess who fell and landed on her right arm AGAIN? Shoulder’s not dislocated this time, but the impact was bad and the whole arm just hurts. Sunday morning’s follow-up: @florinda_3rs Florinda Pend.-Vasq. Arm Injury Update: less pain & more mobility than yesterday, but still needs rest & healing time today. Also, Left-Handed Typist is back! I didn’t visit the ER […]
Growing up, I never thought much of my looks – and no one else seemed to either, except maybe my mom. I stopped growing early, a few inches shy of five feet; I was small all over, actually. But I wore big glasses (which helped hide my somewhat lazy, inward-drifting eyes), and had naturally big hair long before girls spent the ‘80’s trying to achieve it. My mother would tell me I had “good bone […]
It seems like “the holidays” – or at least the process of getting ready for them – start just after Halloween these days, and that sent me off on a few Tuesday Tangents. When did you start seeing Christmas-merchandise sections in the stores this year (assuming you already have)? On October 29, I noticed that the Christmas section of the new Target in my neighborhood was larger than the area devoted to Halloween…which hadn’t happened […]
Karen’s comment on my entry for last week’s Weekend Assignment made me stop and think for a minute: “It’s interesting that your habits have changed on (re-reading). Is it that your reading horizons expanded with adulthood so you had access to more books TBR, or was it more a question of awareness of a wider range of books in which to be interested? It sounds as though your recent rereading is pretty much all […]
