[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTb6qdPu8JE] I remember watching Saving Private Ryan with my zero tolerance for violence. I almost left during the first 15 minutes. I often had to close my eyes so I could breathe. At the end the last two words impacted me deeply. We decided, even with the R rating, that our children needed to watch …
Category: Family
Eat, Pray, Love
I watched it finally. In bed. Alone. Everyone told me it wasn’t very good so my expectations were pretty low. Afterward I internalized most everything. I always do. I am the center of my universe as you are the center of yours. Life. So, honestly I was feeling pretty blue because I realized that many …
Follow Me
Wistie called Sunday. She shared the lesson of the day. Apparently a young woman advocated that the objective to acquire an education for a woman was so that her children can see her good example and decide to get an education too. Wistie had the courage to stand up and suggest that a woman should …
I Can Do Anything Better.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR3rK0kZFkg] Now this is what I’m talkin about! This girl has got it goin on! Whatever she ate for breakfast…I want some of that!
Sir Nigel – My Grandson
This, according to Ben and Breann is my Grandson Sir Nigel. As all proud grandparents I am obliged to post pictures of my grandchildren. Personally, I think the eyes are a dead give away. So definitely ours. Who else can glare with such venom except one of mine? Now I just need to know where …
The Eye of the Tornado
Isn’t it funny how hobbling in pain due to my torn meniscus’ in both knees while I schedule picking up my husband at work after he turns in his car, phone and other items because the company has closed their doors permanently just in time for the holiday season, I hear unfamiliar sounds in my …
HAWAIIAN CHAIR
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHiqVygN-w0] And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
Courage Required
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage” Ralph Waldo Emerson
JACK BLACK FOR VP
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR3C0S7yiv8] Very clever.
Music Cited
Remember when we would go to the record store and listen to the latest single? If you don’t remember….so sad. What is true is I love music. I wish I could make my own. I am not gifted in that way. What I do do is appreciate those that do create music. And I certainly …