Saturday, December 31, 2011
Friday, December 30, 2011
Books From VACATION
I need to find a job to just read. I love getting up at 5 and having coffee and reading. Lottery tickets????
This book made me hysterical with laughter. I gave it to Louise because it is filled with English humor. -
Great Vacation Book - OUTER BANKS, ANNE RIVER SIDDONS
Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig -- they came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60s. Four young women bound by rare, blinding, early friendship -- they spend two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly on the edge of a storm-tossed sea. Now thirty years later, they are coming back. They are coming back to recapture the exquisite magic of those early years...to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain, and cruel-betrayal that shaped the four young girls into women and set them all adrift on the...Outer Banks.
This book made me hysterical with laughter. I gave it to Louise because it is filled with English humor. -
 | Wednesday June 10th Pandora and I are in love! It is official! She told Claire Nelson, who told Nigel, who told me. I told Nigel to tell Claire to tell Pandora that I return her love. I am over the moon with joy. I can overlook the fact that Pandora smokes five Benson and Hedges a day and has her own lighter. When you are in love such things cease to matter.The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ is an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into the troubled life of an adolescent. Writing candidly about his parents’ marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and ‘misunderstood intellectual’, teenager Adrian Mole’s painfully honest diary makes hilarious and compelling reading. |
Great Vacation Book - OUTER BANKS, ANNE RIVER SIDDONS
Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig -- they came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60s. Four young women bound by rare, blinding, early friendship -- they spend two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly on the edge of a storm-tossed sea. Now thirty years later, they are coming back. They are coming back to recapture the exquisite magic of those early years...to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain, and cruel-betrayal that shaped the four young girls into women and set them all adrift on the...Outer Banks.
ANNE RIVERS SIDDONS
Growing up in Georgia, the only child of a prestigious lawyer and his wife, Ann Rivers Siddons did all the things expected of a southern belle until college, when an article she wrote in favor of integration taught her the power of the written word. Siddons wrote several books before publishing her horror novel, The House Next Door, which was hailed by Stephen King as an example of “the new American Gothic.” But with Peachtree Road,"the Southern novel for our generation" (Pat Conroy), she was propelled onto the literary fast track and hasn’t looked back. Best sellers Outer Banks, Up Island and Nora Nora,are just a few of her highly regarded works. Siddons still lives in the south with her husband Heyward and summers in Maine.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
AZ Lowertown Art Show
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.273110536073460.78983.136350709749444&type=3&l=b3b158dab7
I won the Wet Paint Purchase award! I was so honored that the owner chose my painting. Sometimes you need validation in our life and I needed it. I was questioning continuing my membership. It is really hard to juggle being a Mom, teaching, going to grad school, choir, WOHS leadership, and athletics at Claver. I am tired, but we got to keep it all going on. Art is funny. It is really just people's opinions on what they like and don't. You can have great training and technique, but when it comes to shows and voting, it is all about what they like. Luck and Karma come into play. Be a good person and you will be rewarded some day.
Peace to all, Amy
It was great to have someone like your art who doesn't know you. It means that your art gives pleasure to someone else and that is my big thing. After the show, I felt that I should continue on as an artist and I will. I will juggle my kids, teaching, schooling, and all to make it work. Buck up or something to that effect would be my Dad's response. We all know what my Dad would of said... : )
The reception was great and My Sister Kathy and Brother Gary won great door prizes - $25 to Golden's Deli and 2 tickets to the Landmark Theater. Greg won a bottle of wine.
Good Book alert:
http://theslayerchronicles.com/
I loved that it connects the The Vladimer Todd series within the storyline.
WATCH- ONCE UPON A TIME!!!! GREAT!!
I won the Wet Paint Purchase award! I was so honored that the owner chose my painting. Sometimes you need validation in our life and I needed it. I was questioning continuing my membership. It is really hard to juggle being a Mom, teaching, going to grad school, choir, WOHS leadership, and athletics at Claver. I am tired, but we got to keep it all going on. Art is funny. It is really just people's opinions on what they like and don't. You can have great training and technique, but when it comes to shows and voting, it is all about what they like. Luck and Karma come into play. Be a good person and you will be rewarded some day.
Peace to all, Amy
The reception was great and My Sister Kathy and Brother Gary won great door prizes - $25 to Golden's Deli and 2 tickets to the Landmark Theater. Greg won a bottle of wine.
Good Book alert:
http://theslayerchronicles.com/
I loved that it connects the The Vladimer Todd series within the storyline.
WATCH- ONCE UPON A TIME!!!! GREAT!!
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