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Over the River

Posted in Books, Journaling, Wedding, Country, tagged , , on April 5, 2012| 2 Comments »

Today is a day of travel. It’s time to wipe the yellow pollen off the car windows and set our GPS north, to Grandmother’s house we go! Once you marry a Jewish doctor man there are 2 things that will reoccur every year: 1) the Passover pilgrimage to his Mother’s house for a seder; ie ritual, ancient foods (like chicken soup and matzoh) that you must smell for hours before you can actually eat since everyone has to wait for the sun to go down. Oh, and you all have to read this book about being slaves in Egypt, while sitting at the table, waiting for the food…and the sun….What do we learn besides our Jewish history? Patience, and how to make a great chicken soup, which will cure anything btw. 2) He will always be working on Christmas.

So goodbye Bean:

Goodbye flowers blooming:

Goodbye mountains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKqV9uuXa0Y

I’m packing my knitting and wishing you all a peaceful and serene Passover and Easter holiday filled with chocolate bunnies, happy colored eggs, and coconutty macaroons. Let’s dream about SCOTUS upholding the Affordable Care Act for all Americans. I know I am.

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Neil Simon I’m Not

Posted in Books, Journaling, Wedding, Country, tagged , , on April 3, 2012| 2 Comments »


Feeling Spring in the air and a bounce in my step, I decided to April Fool myself and sign up for Script Frenzy. What is Script Frenzy? Well it’s kind of like a national stop smoking day, only instead of being one day to make a pledge, it’s a whole month of frenzied writing – 100 pages in fact – of a screenplay or a stage play that you may have had dancing around in your head for years. At the Book Festival I met a few other Cville writers from Writer House (a cooperative of literary types) and that combined with this script challenge led me to writing stage directions and downloading Celtx!

If you break it down, it’s only about 4 pages a day. You know the plot already:
1) An ADD Blogger bemoans her empty nest
2) Tornado appears
3) Mishaps ensue

Meanwhile back in the blogosphere. Yesterday I got around 300 hits on my “Parenting Old School” post. I can only guess I was “pinging” around because I created a link to the original author’s blog my friend Polli posted to her newsfeed. Normally I might get 20-50 new hits, so I was excited and terrified all at once. Who are all these people?? To which Bob said, “Well are you only writing for your friends?” Smart man. I kept thinking about what my Great Aunt Bert asked me years ago – “Where does your blog go?” And according to Word Press, it’s been around the world a few times. Thanks for visiting everyone!

Here’s to all us “bad” parents out there – sending our kids to Paris alone and letting them find their way home via the NY subway system. And here’s to this febrile feeble attempt at play writing! They didn’t write “Broadway Bound” under my yearbook picture for nothing!!
Go Go 1966 dancer

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