Holiday preparations!

Yay! It's October and we are beginning our Christmas shopping. Lots of fun! At this point in the shopping season we generally spend a lot of time just browsing but we also buy stocking stuffers... tons of cute things to fill the toes of the stockings. And of course birthdays are coming. Tristan and Arielle in two weeks. Mack the week after. Someone special just before Thanksgiving (give you one guess??? and she LOVES packages!) and Maurice's the beginning of December. It used to be "Birthday Hell" starting with Arielle's birthday but it's gotten much easier since there aren't parties to plan. There are lots of cute things for Halloween out there- lots of scary, spine tingling toys to gross out the kiddies. I love it!

election year blues

I hate this season- it ruins what is usually one of my favorite times of the year. September is meant to be a beautiful month with gentle days and quiet nights, gold & yellow leaves and pumpkins on the doorstep. October enters with crisp mornings and shimmering moonlight, shorter days and falling leaves. Birthdays are coming up and secrets for Christmas are being hatched.

Instead we are inundated with political adds and an endless stream of news. Issues are addressed simplistically and real problems are ignored. Politicians are part of the daily stream of conversation instead of being a late night talk show joke, yet a political malaise seems to be rampant. People are not really aware of the differences in the two candidates (or really, all the similarities). They look to the media for answers yet the media has no motivation to tell the truth, and if fact the opposite is true. It's far easier to hammer out the sound-bite answers and the quick fixes that will band-aid a larger gaping wound. It's just depressing.

I think we'll just keep rambling along until there is nothing left.

Key West

See that palm tree silhouetted against the sky? Those are the cerulean skies of Key West, the canopy we slept under on a warm afternoon (it happened to be June but it could have been October.)

Wouldn't you like to go there with me?

all the space and mystery...

at the edge of the ocean...

My Bonny Light Horseman

Looking for some suspense and adventure in your life? Don't look to far abroad... with the same light, droll touch that characterizes the first five books in his series, Meyer once again heads onto the high seas with the cast of characters now familiar to Bloody Jack fans. When tumultuous heroine Jacky is captured (again!) and sure to face the noose, she avoids her fate by facing her most dire circumstances to date: a date with Napoleon! Rollicking and raucous, bordering on the bawdy, Meyer brings adventure back to the reading room with a flare that grabs hold of readers and keeps them to the final utterance. Although written for youth, the tale does not talk down and will capture young and old alike matey!

A book that isn't set aside just because the review is written!