With New Years here and resolutions on everyone’s mind and such, I thought this might be a good time to share how I quit smoking. Why I think that it is important to share how I quit smoking is that it was easy, really easy. It has also been a while now, so I [...]
I am a referencer. When I am reading, I am always looking back to passages or pages or images or whatever that I remember and might be relevant to what I am currently reading or trying to remember what somebody said a few chapters back.
Right now I am reading The Last Lecture. This [...]
I caught an article today listing 25 Banned Books That You Should Read Today. I was glad to see that ten of these books have graced a bookshelf in my home at one time or another. This includes And Tango Makes Three, which is one of Ada’s favorite picture books.
This is a lovely [...]
Well, I have left my book club. There are many reasons for this, none of which I will get into here. Although I am sad to lose the monthly just for Karin activity, I have started going to yoga once a week and am hoping to increase this to twice a week [...]
Our February book club book was Life of Pi. This was my month to host and I chose this book because it is one of my favorites of all time. I love the multi layers of storyline and the ending makes you want to call someone who has also read the book to [...]
For X-mas my mom got me a subscription to Cooking Light Magazine. A couple of years back she bought me the The Best Of Cooking Light cook book and it is absolutely one of my favorites. I cook out of it more than any other cook book I own. The recipes are [...]
Our January book club book is Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox. This autobiography is inspiring and extremely well written. I really enjoyed it.
As the public we only see the strong and well coping Michael J. Fox and it was good to read about his struggle to accept and live with Parkinson’s disease. [...]
I have a very active brain, it never stops or shuts up, so without my career to keep it stimulated, it goes a little nuts some times. This year, I have really limited the time I am committing to anything business related and my mind has way to much time on its hands. [...]
My good friend started a book club about 2 years ago. This is really the only regular activity I have outside the house that doesn’t involve the kids (oh and the gym, but come on that doesn’t really count). I know, pretty sad, but I am working on it.I would really recommend book [...]
