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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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This is another classic—one of my favorites growing up, and now definitely my daughters’ favorite Easter book in the stack. It’s pretty long so it’s a real testament to the narrative strength that kids interests’ are absolutely held until the very end.
The Country Bunny tells the story of a little girl bunny who longs to someday be one of the five Easter bunnies who deliver eggs on Easter to children all over the world. She grows up and gets a little off track (don’t we all?) and winds up having 21 babies. Oopsie! But she’s a fabulous mother and has them all trained up nicely to behave and do chores and so forth. This is my kids’ favorite part: The author describes what each bunny does around the house. These two make the beds…these two wash the clothes…these two sweep the floor and so forth. The 21st bunny pulls out his...
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So today I’m putting on make-up…fumbling in the drawer for mascara. I pick up the “old” mascara that is basically empty—say ‘oops’, toss it back in the drawer and grab the new one. I’ve had the “new” one for a year probably. For the record, there is a trash can maybe 6 inches from my right foot. It occurs to me that it might be time to clean out my make-up drawer. I do it. It takes me all of about 7 minutes, but the extraordinary high I get from throwing some congealing lipsticks away is beyond the pale. This rush spurs me on to more. I quickly—without ruminating etc.—clean the rest of my bathroom drawers. I toss about 4 hair products that failed me in my quest to have slick, silky hair like Reese Witherspoon’s. I do keep most of the wrinkle creams, but toss the ones that give me zits. I toss free floating Q-tips and old...
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STAR BY PETER BISKIND
How Warren Beatty Seduced America
I am still trudging my way through this gigantic book. He just met Annette Bening, so I suppose I must be getting semi-near the end. As biographies go, it’s okay. As a reader, you need to be extremely interested in the utter minutiae involved in the making of movies to truly appreciate the research involved in writing this novel. Biskind literally talked to everyone to get his information. He has sex details from Madonna and scads of other girlfriends. He knows exactly how many feet of film Beatty shot for REDS; how many takes for each scene. In my opinion, both Bonne and Clyde and Splendor in the Grass are great movies –as are Heaven Can Wait and Shampoo, so I was actually keen to find out the genesis of those pictures. But the guy made a lot of movies, and it gets a...
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