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Life can be hard, but it's a lot easier when you are a good person, trying to do the right thing surrounded by people who love you! Goodness has a way of being contagious. Lucky boy. Lucky MAMA.
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My sister’s oldest daughter is 18 and a senior in high school. She is smack dab in the middle of the college admissions process. She seems a little nervous but not completely overwrought. She is a mellow cat by nature—similar to a lot of teens nowadays—languid, quiet, relatively self-absorbed and astonishingly savvy in 2 main areas: technology and looking good. She is stunning anyway but has the benefits as well of perfect make-up, expensive hair color and extensions, and a fabulous wardrobe. When my sister goes anywhere snazzy, she uses her daughter as a personal and unfailingly honest stylist. My niece has a MySpace page and a Facebook page. She has high speed texting capabilities. She knows exactly what bag to carry and what shoes to wear. And yes, on top of all that she does pretty well in school.
So next year she’ll go...
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In my former life as a Kindergarten teacher, I remember thinking—every year—that if I were ever going to write a children’s book it would be a Valentine’s Day themed story because for some reason, there just aren’t that many. And that is still true! I just checked. So I’m recommending an old favorite, and most likely one you’ve heard of already and may even own, but it’s worth digging it out of the book box or wherever. And if you don’t have it, you and your kids are in for a treat.
Valentine’s Day is not my favorite holiday. Is it anyone’s favorite holiday? My mom always bought us kids some chocolates—even through high school—so that was nice, but sadly, the only time of your life that you might actually care about something as stupid as Valentine’s Day is also the time in your life when the likelihood of disappointment is...
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett—fabulous, thumbs up. SHOCKING account of what went on in some homes in the South as recently as 30-40 years ago—in our lifetime!
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters and Shatter by Michael Robotham—
I got both these books off a favorite books of 2009 list by Stephen King of all people—whose books I don’t like because they are way too scary. These 2 books are immensely readable—creepy for sure but well written—both British authors—and with a certain British sensibility that I’ve always enjoyed. It’s hard for Americans to truly understand their aristocracy—the landed gentry and so forth—but it makes for very interesting reading. And yes, they are both scary—not like Carrie or The Shining, for God’s sake, but scary in a good way. Trust me—I’m the biggest fraidy-cat ever. There are a couple...
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