It is a tradition at my church for us to line up on the front lawn and have the beginning of the Palm Sunday litergy outside. Then we are handed palm fronds and we sing the entrance hymn.
It must be because of recent March Easters,having to go visit the in-laws so we didn't have to do it on Easter, and the weather,I don't remember doing this for many a year. Today was beautiful so the old traditon was upheld!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Book Club Ramblings........
Tonight is our meeting. Literary League Of Extraordinary Women
The book to discuss is Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. Yes,a Nazi book! Not my fav. by any stretch but that is another story! So Lise and I decided to bring a German dessert??? But I could not find anything in the local bakery so I got brownies and cookies. B U T....ahah!!!!!....You never know whats in my house left over from my deceased parent's incredible supplies of miscellaneous junk...I have cocktail napkins from Germany. They say Bremen on them and have a picture of the town circa 1600 something! The girls will get a kick out of that.
The meeting is at Anne's house in Berlin,NJ...bet nobody has picked up on that irony of that!!!!!
The book to discuss is Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. Yes,a Nazi book! Not my fav. by any stretch but that is another story! So Lise and I decided to bring a German dessert??? But I could not find anything in the local bakery so I got brownies and cookies. B U T....ahah!!!!!....You never know whats in my house left over from my deceased parent's incredible supplies of miscellaneous junk...I have cocktail napkins from Germany. They say Bremen on them and have a picture of the town circa 1600 something! The girls will get a kick out of that.
The meeting is at Anne's house in Berlin,NJ...bet nobody has picked up on that irony of that!!!!!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Another Quote From A Book On Aging......
This is from a book called When You Lie About Your Age The Terrorists Win by Carol Leifer. I do not get this title at all but the woman is funny...
From her 40 things I know at 50........."Never buy expensive thong underwear. One trip through the dryer and its a frilly bookmark!"
Thongs...as if!!!!!!!
From her 40 things I know at 50........."Never buy expensive thong underwear. One trip through the dryer and its a frilly bookmark!"
Thongs...as if!!!!!!!
Drinking From The Fountqain Of Youth-More Magazine
from a book by Suzanne Braun Levine called 50 Is the New 50:
About having second thoughts on revealing she was 65.......
"It surprised me how hard it has been to admit in print to being 65. It wasn't the number that bothered me so much as the fear that when people knew my age they would catagorize me. I didn't want to be disqualified from a lifetime of being connected to other woman of any age. We may not all share the same birthday,but we have shared some life experiences."
Yea to all girl!
About having second thoughts on revealing she was 65.......
"It surprised me how hard it has been to admit in print to being 65. It wasn't the number that bothered me so much as the fear that when people knew my age they would catagorize me. I didn't want to be disqualified from a lifetime of being connected to other woman of any age. We may not all share the same birthday,but we have shared some life experiences."
Yea to all girl!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Lets keep it light and good natured on the comments!
For me,new to this blog world,I think there is enough screaming and yelling coming from the news media that we don't need to get into arguments with eachother!
Today"s Snippets!
Being laid off and and getting a variety of things to read delivered to my house,I often read things I would like to share! Since hubby is only interested in Vampire movies and American Idol I have to unload someplace!!!!!
This is from FAST COMPANY a magazine that comes to this house for what reason or how I do not know! It is from an article on suggestions to the president on how to cure the ails of the auto industry.
"The auto companies are unfunded benefit plans that make cars on the side. The government must institute a national health plan that frees the Big Three(and others)from current and retiree medical costs; it must assume responsibility for pension obligations in exchange for equity."
as a former group benefit analyst for 20 cumulative years,I can say that there are huge inequities out there as far as health ins goes. At least this country's citizens need preventative things covered so they don't show up in the ER needing thousands of dollars in care.
ON A FUNNY NOTE: from today's Courier Post cooking section:
"it is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older,that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him."
Robertson Davies,Canadian author 1913-1995
This is from FAST COMPANY a magazine that comes to this house for what reason or how I do not know! It is from an article on suggestions to the president on how to cure the ails of the auto industry.
"The auto companies are unfunded benefit plans that make cars on the side. The government must institute a national health plan that frees the Big Three(and others)from current and retiree medical costs; it must assume responsibility for pension obligations in exchange for equity."
as a former group benefit analyst for 20 cumulative years,I can say that there are huge inequities out there as far as health ins goes. At least this country's citizens need preventative things covered so they don't show up in the ER needing thousands of dollars in care.
ON A FUNNY NOTE: from today's Courier Post cooking section:
"it is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older,that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him."
Robertson Davies,Canadian author 1913-1995
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