Mrs Jeffries

Currently reading Mrs Jeffries and the feast of st stephen I am really enjoying this but keep getting sleepy.

Charactors:

Stephen Whitfield a arrogant, upper-class twit, murdered by poisoned wine .

Think I will have a glass of non poisoned wine Terri Said

Witherspoon detective

eliza graham love interest of langdon and whitfield

Barnes another detective.

smythe has money but works as servant for detective left for 6 mo when he was supposed to mary Betsy she is mad at him

Betsy maid love interst of smythe

rosalind murray sister in law of murdered man living with him and was supposed to marry him but he decided he wanted to marry eliza. but not true she did not want to marry him

Oh no Plot twist..

snow snow snow I want it to snow

I want the house to be cleaned up

I love this peace and quiet.

I am actually reading and not getting sleepy.

I want to visit scotland and wales

0oh no it is 2:17 I do not want tim topass. I love snow i want to feed the birds.

Mrs Jeffries

Currently reading Mrs Jeffries and the feast of st stephen I am really enjoying this but keep getting sleepy.

Baby Abe Born

What a Christmas and what a blessing. Abe Robert (after his wonderful grandfather) Sutton born 5:43 8 lb 3oz 21 inches long. Thank you lord for your wonderful blessings.

Happiness

It is true I think that Happiness is a choice. I find my mind choosing regret why not just choose every moment to look at awe at that moment? Am I hard wired for that thinking?Blah Blah Blah. I need to decorate and I actually want to decorate but I think I am going to take a nap....
For
yesterday.
tomorrow,
today,
thank you !!!!!
for all
and
more
for all i am not
for what i am
let
me rejoice.

BLESSINGS

ABOVE ALL ELSE I AM BLESSED BY LOVING FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
MY PRAYER IS TO BE ABLE TO BE A GOOD FRIEND TO ALL THOSE I LOVE SO DEARLY AND TO BE A GOOD PERSON TO EVERYONE I MEET.

panic attacks

Panic attacks are interesting. They make you think that there is no way out and the more you try to figure a way out the more you are sure you are stuck. Fight or Flight. I always want to run as far away as possible. I can't see beyond what is causing the anxiety. My newest one is due to signing the papers for a Jeep Grand Cherokee and realizing I will be 61 before it will be payed off That means I have to keep working and I don't have a problem with that except I want to spend more time with the grand kids while they are little. I just have to work better at managing my time to do all these things. The first thing I have to do is resolve the credit card problem. What makes me so mad about myself is that there is a part of me that thinks if I ignore things they will go away and OF COURSE THEY DON'T... I NEED TO GET A GRIP ON THINGS.
BUT ONE DAY AT A TIME AND I HAVE TO GET THROUGH TODAY.

IT IS 552 NOW AND HAVE TO LEAVE FOR WORK AT 645 SO I HAVE A FEW MINUTES TO PONDER THIS. WITH COFFEE IN HAND. I HAVE MY 8 HOURS OF WORK AND THEN MUST BY GROCERIES FOR THANKSGIVING. TURKEY SWEET POTATOES GREEN BEANS DRESSING. PICK UP MY WINE AND GET MY PRESCIPTIONS AT THE PHARMACY. THEN GET A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP FOR MY 12 HOURS TOMORROW. THEN THURSDAY I WILL HAVE TIME TO LOAD EVERYTHING UP TO GO TO HEATHERS AND TO COOK. THIS ALL CAN BE DONE. I CAN DO THIS. I DO NEED MY SLEEP. I CAN DO ALL THIS ONE STEP AT A TIME.

sat am

The Rabbit Room

The Rabbit Room

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I listened to Shem Creek and the message was if you don't settle you get the man and life of your dreams

I am reading her fearful symmetry and so far very good Very interesting characters Two sets of twins

aha moment

Took Cooper for a walk.
took time to talk
I know I am not alone
something bigger is going on.

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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane: "A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history – the Salem witch trials.
Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie’s grandmother’s abandoned home near Salem, she can’t refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest—to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge"

THE DANTE CLUB About the Book

THE DANTE CLUB About the Book: "1865 Boston, a small group of literary geniuses puts the finishing touches on America’s first translation of The Divine Comedy and prepares to unveil the remarkable visions of Dante to the New World. The powerful old guard of Harvard College wants to keep Dante out—believing that the infiltration of such foreign superstitions onto our bookshelves would prove as corrupting as the foreign immigrants invading Boston harbor. The members of the Dante Club—poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and publisher J. T. Fields —endure the intimidation of their fellow Boston Brahmins for a sacred literary cause, an endeavor that has sustained Longfellow in the hellish aftermath of his wife’s tragic death by fire.
But the plans"

The Ghost Next Door: True Stories of ... - Google Books

The Ghost Next Door: True Stories of ... - Google Books

Georgia Ghosts - Google Books

Georgia Ghosts - Google Books

Heir to the glimmering world - Google Books

I am currently reading this book. I picked this book up at an estate auction in Harrisburg. It was the home the Skaggs who owened drug stores in this area. The one I know for sure was in Ridgeway. I never saw so many books as were in this house. Stuffed in every nook and cranny. The funny thing about this tagged estate sale is that Lydia went with me and she and I were both knee deep in shoes looking for a treasure.

There are alot of words I don't know in this book so I am going to try and define them here.

Who are the Karaites? readers of the scriptures, a member of a jewish sect est in the middle east in the 8th century rejecting the talmud and acknowledging only the bible as the authority in religion kara means to read in hebrew.

talmud is the collection of writing constituting the jewish cilil and religious law it consists of two parts, the mishna text and the gemara commentary

Cynthia Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children. She subsequently moved to the Bronx with her parents, who owned a pharmacy in the Pelham Bay section. Her parents had emigrated to America from the northwest region of Russia.
At the age of five and a half, Ozick entered heder, the Yiddish-Hebrew "room" where, in the America of those years, Jewish pupils were sent for religious instruction. There she was confronted by a rabbi who told Cynthia's bobe [grandmother], who had accompanied her granddaughter to school, in Yiddish, "Take her home; a girl doesn't have to study." Ozick dates her feminism to that time and is especially grateful to her grandmother for bringing her back to school the very next day and insisting that she be accepted.
While Ozick describes the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx as a lovely place, she found it "brutally difficult to be a Jew" there. She remembers having stones thrown at her and being called Christ's killer as she ran past the two churches in her neighborhood. She was particularly uncomfortable at school because she would not, on principle, sing Christian Christmas carols, and was humiliated as a public example for that. While writing The Cannibal Galaxy, a novel set in a Jewish all-day school, she asserts, "I thought of my own suffering, deeply suffering wormlike childhood in grade school; of my mother's endurances in grade school as an immigrant child.... Carelessness in a teacher of small children can burn in impotence for life, like a brand or horrible sign."
School became a serious pursuit for Ozick She attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan and then New York University. She then set out for Columbus, Ohio, where she earned a master's degree from Ohio State University with the thesis "Parable in the Later Novels of Henry James." As she confesses in "The Lesson of the Master," she "became Henry James." In 1952, she married Bernard Hallote. Upon receiving his degree, the couple moved back to New York.
For the next thirteen years Ozick devoted herself exclusively to what she called "High Art," working on a philosophical novel, Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, which she ultimately abandoned. She then spent another six years (from 1957 to 1963) on Trust, a massive novel published in 1966.
In 1965, the same year her daughter Rachel was born, she published several poems on Jewish themes and produced "The Pagan Rabbi." She also wrote a hilarious short story based loosely on the career of Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Envy; or Yiddish in America," published in Commentary in 1969.
Three of her stories have won first prize in the O. Henry Prize Story competition, and five of her stories were chosen for republication in the yearly anthologies of Best American Short Stories. The editor of the 1984 volume called her one of the three greatest American writers of stories living today.
Ozick has been nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She also received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award. She has received several honorary doctorates and was invited to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa Oration at Harvard University.
The author of novels, essays and plays, her short story collections include The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories [1971] and Levitation [1982]. In 1980, Ozick published "The Shawl,"in the New Yorker, considered by many to be her most powerful short story. In 1983, again in The New Yorker, Ozick published a sequel to "The Shawl," "Rosa," a novella whose heft permitted her publisher to issue The Shawl [1989] as a separate volume, consisting of the story and the novella. Ozick told the Paris Review in an interview that she would prefer not to make art out of the Holocaust. "I don't want to tamper or invent or imagine, and yet I have done it. I can't not do it. It comes. It invades."
Cythia Ozick has the unique honor of being the first writer to be given the Rea Award for the Short Story. In making this selection, the first Rea Award jurors, William Abrahams, Shannon Ravenel and Peter Schimdt said:
"A writer of great intelligence, moral energy, and imaginative power, Cynthia Ozick has appreciably widened the range of what the short story is able to be.…Reading "The Shawl" we are moved past the truth of fact to a deeper, different understanding; we bear witness to the truth of art. Only rarely does this happen, and when it does, it must be celebrated."

Carried Away

I got a little carried away and spelt some words wrong. I do know how to spell

Too Tired

Unfortunately I am to tired to write much tonight. I look back on my day and wonder where does it go. I leave home a little before 7 and drive an hour to work. Lunch from 11:30 TO 12:30. Work till 5:00, get groceries and stop by Heathers to deliver her computer. Drive the rest of the way home and put away groceries. Ate a bite and now I am writing and must go to bed. This is what sucks the joy from my life. This constant journey. At work they are talking of mandating us to work on Friday. I don't think I can do this. It makes me tired. If there is something else out there my prayer is God will open doors. I know I can't just sit around waiting for it to happen.

It is frustrating to see so many people unable to get the meds they need and tests and referrals for medical care. Then to hear people say we don't need universal health care. I don't know how the people who don't think we need it can say such a thing. I saw a sign today on a billboard saying we don't want our tax money to pay for abortion. My insurance doesn't pay for elective procedures. Why wouldn't abortion be elective. Why would any insurance pay for it. I am sick of the lies and the liars You can bet someone is getting paid big money to spread all the lies of what will happen if we have insurance for everyone.

I realllllllllly want to read this book

QUOTES THAT APPLY

Young souls get angry at others.Old souls get angry at themselves.But really wise souls, Terri, have already turned the page.
Got forever and ever? The Universe

LORD I WANT TO TURN THE PAGE



"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." — Albert Einstein


BETH VINCENT USED TO SAY THIS AND IT IS SO TRUE


"So many books, so little time." — Frank Zappa


"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." — Mark Twain

The opposite of love is not hate it is indefferience
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." — Bessie Anderson Stanley A

Your soul is often a battlefield upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Man do I battle with this all the time and every time i have let my passion and appetite win I have paid dearly.

Where does time go

Preston and Lydia came over yesterday and spent the night. We had a wonderful time. I have been getting monthly craft kits for the grandkids. We opened the box and it was full of stuff safari hats and little stuffed gorillas and kits to make animal mask and puppets etc. etc..Andy, B, and Addy came over and we had sloppy joes fr fries mac and cheese. Preston and lydia spent the night and in the middle of the night lydia pulled my hair. She said she thought she was on a train.
We had a wonderful tea party and they each poured the tea. It was fun but I am exhausted.

More on Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote was a only child. I wonder what he thought about being a only child?

"Longevity conquers scandal every time." Quotes by Shelby Foote supplied by Quotations Book. -

->"Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home." quote by Shelby

Maybe this quote explains some of the bad decisions I have made in my life. The love of novelty

Love in a Dry Season was his attempt to deal with the "so-called upper classes of the Mississippi Delta" around the time of the Great Depression. Foote often expressed great affection for this novel, which was published in 1951.

Foote did not begin writing about the Civil War until 1954, when he was about 37 years old. His fascination with the subject began when he was growing up in Greenville, Mississippi. One of his best friends was Walker Percy, who became a novelist and essayist. Walker's uncle and guardian, William Alexander Percy, had a profound influence on the boys. "He was the greatest teacher I have ever known, because he thought about books and talked about them in a way that made you want to read them," Foote said in a July 6, 1982 interview in the Jackson, Mississippi

While researching this I just found another book I want to read.

(see picture)

I have always been overly interested in the civil war. I have dozens of books relating to it fiction, nonfiction, recipes, photographs. I have a relative who was in the civil war and buried at union ridge. I think he had the same name as my grandpa. Silas.

Maybe when I finally write a book I will use this name. Silas Virgil it really is a great name and my grandmothers Jessica Antonette. Silas virgil and Jessica Antonette. They could have very well lived on a plantation in the south in fiction.

Yes I am going to have to now buy this book.

Book I just finished.

Love in a Dry Season. New York, Dial Press, 1951.

Shelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy.

Love in a Dry Season describes an erotic and economic triangle, in which two wealthy and fantastically unhappy Mississippi families -- the Barcrofts and the Carrutherses -- are joined by an open-faced fortune hunter from the North, a man whose ruthlessness is matched only by his inability to understand the people he tries to exploit and his fatal incomprehension of the passions he so casually ignites.

Combining a flawless sense of place with a Faulknerian command of the grotesque, Foote's novel turns a small cotton town into a sexual battleground as fatal as Vicksburg or Shiloh -- and one where strategy is no match for instinct and tradition.

About the Author

Shelby Foote was born on November 7, 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served as a captain of field artillery but never saw combat. After World War II he worked briefly for the Associated Press in their New York bureau. In 1953 he moved to Memphis, where he lived for the remainder of his life.Foote was the author of six novels:

Tournament, Follow Me Down, Love in a Dry Season, Shiloh, Jordan County, and September, September. He is best remembered for his 3-volume history The Civil War: A Narrative, which took twenty years to complete and resulted in his being a featured expert in Ken Burns' acclaimed Civil War documentary. Over the course of his writing career, Foote was also awarded three Guggenheim fellowships.

Foote died in 2005 at the age of 88.

Subject: 50 years ago - Oh & so TRUE !!!

Here's to US!!!!


No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us,
WE ARE AWESOME !!!!
OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!


To Those of Us Born
1930 - 1979





TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1930's, 40's, 50's,
60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.


They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered
with bright colored lead-base paints.


We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes,
we had baseball caps
not helmets on our heads.


As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.


Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.


We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren't overweight.. WHY?

Because we were always outside playing...that's why!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on..

No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY.


We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps
and then ride them down the hill,
only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem


We did not have Play stations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's,
no surround-sound or CD's,
no cell phones,
no personal computers,
no Internet and no chat rooms.


WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!



We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse.



We ate worms and mud pies
made from dirt, and
the worms did not live in us forever.



We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.



We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.


Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.
Those who didn't had to learn
to deal with disappointment.

Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

WHAT

A

LIFE

Goodreads | Quotes by Jacqueline Kelly (page 1 of 1)

Goodreads Quotes by Jacqueline Kelly (page 1 of 1):

"'One day I would have all the books in the world,
shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would
read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to
come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I
would pelt them with peach pits until they went home.'
— Jacqueline Kelly
(The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate)

Avoid Late Fees from Draining Your Bank Account - Oprah.com

Avoid Late Fees from Draining Your Bank Account - Oprah.com
Read this if you have ever been screwed by the bank

I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante garde on my patio.

I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant. I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.

Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon?

I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 &70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ... I will.

I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set.They, too, will get old.

I know I am sometimes forgetful.But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.

Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers,or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect

.I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face.

So many have never laughed, and so many have died before theirhair could turn silver.
As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think.
I don't question myself anymore.

I like the person I have become.

I am not going to live forever,but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be.


And I shall eat dessert 1st every single day(if I feel like it)

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