I found this to be a great read and I plan to look for his other books as well:
William Kowalski’s The Good Neighbor
Family matters! ’nuff said. Do go and read. I highly recommend it.
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January 28th, 2007 / Categories: Moose Nuggets /
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January 27th, 2007 / Categories: Moose Nuggets /
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Getting older is a breeze. Really, we have nothing to do with it at all. It’s simply a matter of waking up every day and breathing in . . . breathing out.
Do that 24 x 7 x 365 and soon, you’re a whole year older! It’s your birthday – and people are congratulating you and wishing you well.
Almost like YOU had something – anything – to do with it.
No, lest you think I’m complaining – or negative – about my rapidly advancing (it’s a mad dash, folks!) age . . . I’m not really.
It doesn’t really bother me that today I turn (gasp!) 57 years old.
You see, NEXT Saturday Mr. Moose has HIS 57th birthday, too.
And, two weeks after that (February 17th) Lessa will be 37! And, nine days later Ladybug will be 32!
I see you sneaking sideways glances at your calendars. Yes, you can see that we have all four birthdays within a span of 30 days. And, if you are so minded, you will have noticed that our birthdates are arranged in the order of our ages – that is, I am the oldest and my birthday comes first, then Mr. Moose, Lessa and Ladybug. Quite fun when the girls were living at home and it was just the four of us.
These days we have grandbabies added into the mix – two of Ladybug’s are also in February.
So, no, I’m not upset about getting older – getting grayer – if I were still young I wouldn’t hve the joy of being called Mom (or MOTHER! depending on the level of my girls’ frustration). Nor would I be loved as Nana, Nonny, Gramma, or Grams (called so by the one who used to call me “Ga” – sob, I do miss that!)
And now . . . onward to 58 – then 59 – then the magical age of 60 when most of the senior discounts kick in. Suggested senior citizen lunch donation for us young whippersnappers is $9 – but when I become a senior (at the tender age of 60) I will be able to only pay $5. Heh.
And, come that year – that (probably) very cold February, my girls and I will (Lord willing) be sunning ourselves on the sands of Hawaii.
See . . . I told you getting older wasn’t such a bad thing.
January 27th, 2007 / Categories: Moose Nuggets /
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Hah. You thought I’d forgotten, huh? Not even! Love you!
at the beginning of the month – the beginning of the year – I mentioned a book I had just finished – @ Home for the Holidays by Meredith Efken.
Shortly after I finished that book my boss brought in a tub chock full of books to share. I snagged a grocery bag’s worth. She has great taste in reading and is generous with her bounty. I am always out for a new read and so snagged away.
So, in the past two weeks, these are the books I have finished and highly recommend to you all.
The first I completed was Pigtopia by Kitty Fitzgerald. This poignant and thought provoking book was also a bit disturbing. It is hard to read of cruelty – against a human being – by other (so-called) human beings. Fiction – but oh, so believable.
I began to read Gilead by Marilynn Robinson, only to be introduced to another before I could finish it – so I read them simultaneously. It depended on the time of day and where I was which book I had in my hands.
First, Gilead. This is a long letter from a dying old preacher (77 years old) to his 7 year old son (by a second marriage after his first wife and child died.) There is much angst over what he would have his son know – and what he learns about himself and those around him while in the process of writing the letter.
Absolutely wonderful read! I know such a preacher and I found myself thinking I wish he would read this book to get an insight to himself. Then realized I was getting an insight to my pastor/preacher by reading about this one. It’s a good read – not overly religious – very human – and heart-touching. I finished it today.
And, the book my boss handed me just after I began Gilead was New Stories from the South: the Year’s Best, 2006, edited by Allan Gurganus and Kathy Pories. I finished it yesterday and returned it as was requested by my boss. (all of the rest of the books are welcome to find new homes, although I do take them back as I finish them – to allow someone who wasn’t as quick or sticky-fingered as I to enjoy them as well.)
As can be figured out by the title – it is a book of short stories and they have an underlying current running through them – the South. All happened either IN the south or TO southerners. Pathos, angst, “the” war, slavery, humanity . . . all are covered. It is a wonderful read. When you click on the link you will see that there are other issues as well – seems there is a volume published every year.
Okay – here it is just the 24th of the first month of 2007Â and I have read four books this year! I’ll report later what my next selection has been.
Our receptionist is out this week so I am doing desk duty. It’s a lovely thing to be paid to sit and read all day. And, I am free to do just that – as long as the phone gets answered, the mail gets sorted, faxes handled, people let in and out of the door, coffee made, etc. Lovely, just lovely.
So – what are YOU reading?????