Most people who know me know that I am well-acquainted with daytime TV, from the morning news, right on through the afternoon talk shows. They yammer away in the background as I go about my business of blogging, editing my book, researching my book, or practicing my daily pencil drawing exercises. Today I was irritated . . . → Read More: Clarice! Wow!
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Lately I’ve had this idea, in the light of so many books coming out as movies, that I would read the books, then go see the movies. It all started with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. That was by far my most favorite book I ever read. I was a little nervous to go . . . → Read More: This Book/Movie Movie/Book Thing Resetting the Compass – Day 29 The other day I saw Katherine Heigl on daytime tv talking about her role in the movie One For The Money. She said she read Janet Evanovich’s book by the same name years ago and always envisioned herself in the role of the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, and now . . . → Read More: One For the Money Resetting the Compass – Day 15 Sunday afternoon, enjoying the four “F words” – family, food, football, and fire. All four of us, each in our respective chairs, grouped around the TV and, at the same time engaged in our iThings. I put my iThing down and picked up my big, thick Sunday paper. I . . . → Read More: When IS Too Much, Too Much? Resetting the compass: Day 4 (It’s becoming obvious to me that that is what January is going to be all about.) This morning my husband had an early appointment with the heart doctor to discuss the next steps on his path of arterial fibrillation. We were going to a specialist to see if he needed . . . → Read More: [sic] Today my husband and I took a much needed break from hospitals and holidays. We went to see The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and then out to dinner. The movie was fabulous! I read all three books and was a fan since the books came out. I’ve gone to see other movies based . . . → Read More: That Girl & That Tattoo True freedom is when the curtain is finally lifted and we see that which has been hidden within ourselves, keeping us prisoner. Today my morning meditation solved the true mystery of what I have been unknowingly grappling with for 17 months now. There is no better way to explain it than to just let you . . . → Read More: Freedom..No..True Freedom The new book, The Secret Lives of Wives by Iris Krasnow, is making it’s way around the talk show circuit. Today the author was on The Talk just as my husband walked in from work. Ms. Krasnow was making the statement “today women don’t need a man. We have sperm banks….” My husband took great . . . → Read More: Secret Lives The wisdom waiting in what Churchill says is that we live like hungry fisherman: sewing and casting our nets, though we never really know what they will catch, never really know what will feed us until it is brought aboard. And the Buddhists say, to be a good fisherman, you must detach yourself from the . . . → Read More: Fishing – Now I Get It Recently I received a gift from a little boy, Owen, I had in my Young Authors’ Workshop this summer. It’s a book called “The Seaglass Hunter’s Handbook”. Owen and I shared a love of beach glass. We both are collector’s and he even taped two pieces of his collection to the inside cover. Inside . . . → Read More: Zen…Not What I Thought |
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