New Year's Eve - I believe Ben, Peace to you and ENJOY!

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. -

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.

AZ Lowertown Art Show

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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!!

Lowertown Art Show

azgallery.org

December 2-January 15

The AZ Gallery and Black Dog Cafe are proud to jointly present the First Annual Lowertown Art Show, a juried show designed to showcase the work of Artists who live and work in the lowertown neighborhood and downtown of Saint Paul, MN.

SHOW LOCATIONS: AZ Gallery, 308 Prince Street, #130, St. Paul, MN 55101 & Black Dog Café, 308 Prince Street, #100, St. Paul, MN 55101

December 2, 2011: 5-10 pm Show Opens/First Fridays in Lowertown
December 10, 2011: 7-10 pm Awards Reception – Prizes generously donated by our sponsors
January 15, 2012: Show Closes

 

Heather Brewer Post on Bullying and then Michigan????????

I love Vladimer Todd books and Heather has the greatest mind as an author and a young adult mentor.  I wish I could do what she does so well.  She is a mastermind.  Michigan and Penn State- WHAT is wrong with y'all.  As a mother, teacher and a human being...WHAT is wrong with you???????? « Remember that time when Vlad and Joss were bunnies…and British? | Home | Haikus and bullies and changes, oh my! Look at that, Minions – I hadn’t been blogging regularly and now, you’re getting PUMMELED with my blogginess. Sick of me yet? I hope not. I do know, however, that many of you are sick of not being able to comment on my blog. There is, apparently, a bug that’s in need of fixing, so I’m sicking my web guru on the issue ASAP. Also, I’ll send along a list of awesome changes to the site. The forum is getting totally revamped, and the FAQ (plus several other parts of my site) are getting updated. I feel like I’ve been living under a rock, but now it’s time to do something about this mess. Somebody grab a broom, forcryingoutloud! And by “somebody”, I of course mean ME. So, there are two reasons that I had to blog today. One is because we have winners to my latest contest! Jacob Coates, who’s thirteen and from Washington, is the grand prize winner of my haiku contest. He won an XBox360, with a skin that looks like the cover of FIRST KILL! And he did it with this fangtastic haiku tribute to Vlad: tendancy to kill tries his best to control it on a strict diet Looooove it! Plus, our two first place winners (Aubrey Peel – 16, from Florida, and Kayla Rupper – 16, from Utah) each win an autographed copy of FIRST KILL. Out of almost 400 entries, it wasn’t an easy pick, so congrats to the winners! If you have any ideas for future contests, just drop me a line. I’m always curious what the Minion Horde wants to win and how they want to win it. Now…THIS. As a home-state Michigander, I am outraged, sickened, and disgusted. Spread the word, Minions. Because we can change the future, but we have to rally together in order to do so. Bullying has to STOP. P.S. I love each and every one of you. *squish*

Now…THIS. As a home-state Michigander, I am outraged, sickened, and disgusted. Spread the word, Minions. Because we can change the future, but we have to rally together in order to do so. Bullying has to STOP.

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