Archive for June, 2009

ramblings…

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Hello blog, hello world!
I have been remiss at posting here. sigh.
I have all of the usual excuses: Life’s been busy. I’ve been feeling overwhelmed! (and so on and so on)
However, today I read this beautiful blogpost and it made me want to “connect.”
I am busy. I am feeling overwhelmed. [...]

“Grand” treatment?

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

I want to relate an experience from an outing earlier this week, one I’m still pondering.
background information:
I am 54 years old.
I was on this outing with my parents.
The purpose of the outing was to try and test and hopefully purchase a new mattress for my mom.
setting:
a furniture store in a small to mid-sized city, on [...]

Little Women (Katherine Hepburn); tearjerker

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

OK, I’ll admit it… I’m a sap for “tearjerker” movies.
I teach adult ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages).
Some of my students recently read an abbreviated version of Little Women and watched the newer version DVD.
I ordered the older version from Netflix and watched it this morning. http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Little_Women/60011720
I cried. I “blatted like a [...]