play along here There are some… interesting places out there. Places that need to be visited, to be experienced. Here’s a Travelogue of Weirdness for you! In no particular order… 1. The Flavor Graveyard Location: Waterbury, Vermont It’s a legit graveyard for ice cream flavors that have been discontinued… or de-pinted. The website lets you […]
1. What’s something that reminds you of your grandmother? Tell us why. This rocking chair is in my living room. It was my grandmother’s, which was once in my dad’s nursery. She fed my dad in it, and I’ve sat in it to feed each of my babies. The purse was also hers, and it […]
click the image above to play 1. Do you have a favorite movie to recommend? My all-time favorite is On Golden Pond. And I’m obsessed with the Harry Potter movies and the Lord of the Rings movies. 2. Do you have a schedule for your day or do you wing it? It’s a fluid schedule […]
Sometimes it hits me just how much some of the people in my life have changed over time, something that has become glaringly apparent in recent years. But then I wonder… Have they changed? Or have they always been this way? Did I just not see it? Did they just hide it until it now? […]
This week’s questions are stolen from Love Me Some Surveys. 1. Ignoring nutrition, could you live off veggies for the rest of your life? Absolutely not. I have a thing about cooked vegetables, most of them. And I’m not much better with a lot of raw ones either. 2. Elaborate on a way you have volunteered? […]
Saturday 9: Papa, Can You Hear Me? (1984) Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here. 1) The song begins with a prayer to “God, our Heavenly Father.” Do you often pray? Not in the traditional way. I’m spiritual more than religious. 2) This song is from the movie Yentl. Set in the early 1900s, it tells […]
play along here 1. What’s the best non-animated movie musical you’ve seen in the past several years? I watched this a couple years ago on Netflix, although it’s currently on Hulu. Good movie! synopsis: The music of The Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and […]
play along here image: Wikipedia Katharine Hepburn is my all-time favorite actress, and one of my favorite human beings. She was a feminist, her parents both advocates for social change, holding progressive views that many of their time disapproved of. . Her father, Thomas, helped create an organization in New England that educated the public […]
Let me take you back to the spring of 1998. I was 27, almost 28. I was freshly divorced, a single mom of two boys. I was out of the Army, living back in my hometown. I had just started working as an executive secretary at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York after a […]
click the image above to play 1. Music. What kind of music do you enjoy? Are you musical? My musical tastes are as eclectic as my reading tastes. I’m a mood listener, just like I’m a mood reader. One day I could be listening to Metallica, the next Dropkick Murphys. Old-school Naughty by Nature to […]