Right, but what is that line about if you don't like the weather in Maine? Wait ten minutes and it will change. Same goes here. It's now much more April-like, wet and cool. Oh well.
I found you on SITS. I had to laugh at this picture. I grew up in Wyoming so I know a bit about small towns. People used to honestly believe we rode horses to school! I love the title of your blog. Sometimes that is the best way to do it!
I'm in the process of figuring out who I am - mother, wife, daughter, writer, extrovert, hermit. A contradiction in every sense of the word. Maybe it's a cliche or just mid-life, after all it's the journey, not the destination.
What a fascinating way to write about the life and times of the famous silent film star Lousine Brooks. The Chaperone isn't really about Brooks, it is the story of a close to middle-aged woman living in a era when society's moral compass seemed to be swinging wildly from one extreme to the other. Cora Carlilse leaves Witchita, Kansas to chaperone Brooks for the summer in New York City while the not yet discovered starlet attends the Denishawn Dance Academy. Cora leaves behind her husband and her quiet, sheltered life to return to the city where she lived as an orphan at the "Home for Friendless Girls". The author vividly creates the exciting world of New York in the roaring twenties. Juxtaposing the free spiritedness of the flappers with Prohibition. Cora wrestles with her preconceived ideas of what is right and expected of women, trying to protect her young charge from ruining her reputation in the big city. Ironically, it is Cora who risks ruination when she meets a man who helps to change her mind about what she wants from life.
Half Time
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Gorgeous Florida beach.
Frozen Mid-West landscape.
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We've been enjoying quiet winter days and a really relaxed (of course still
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merry christmas & happy new year my friends
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Book Review: The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor
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Title: The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of The Titanic Author: Hazel Gaynor
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Well my friends, it has been a struggle to get Google to let me back on my
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Love it! Also great to see you out skiing in short sleeves. It's warm and sunny in Maine too. What am I doing at my computer?
ReplyDeleteRight, but what is that line about if you don't like the weather in Maine? Wait ten minutes and it will change. Same goes here. It's now much more April-like, wet and cool. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteI found you on SITS. I had to laugh at this picture. I grew up in Wyoming so I know a bit about small towns. People used to honestly believe we rode horses to school! I love the title of your blog. Sometimes that is the best way to do it!
ReplyDeleteVERY funny!
ReplyDeleteStopping by from SITS
I think that's wonderful!
ReplyDeleteWe have the horse riders in our small town, but no Tim Horton's, or any other drive-thru for that matter.
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome.
ReplyDeleteI love it!
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