It's been a long time, friends I will be writing more very soon. Stay scary.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/garden/a-paean-to-the-haunted-house.html?ref=style&_r=0

Or you IN? Or are you "in"?

Toxic atheism drives people apart

NZ Hobbit coins- YES PLEASE!

Well, now they've finally done it. If this doesn't make you smile among all the political chit chat snark today, then you truly have a heart of stone. See you later, friends..parent duties call and there's a dog snarling at my ankles right now who needs attention too.


New Zealand issues Hobbit coins as legal tender

good reads

Do yourself a big favor and read "Farther Away" new essays by Jonathan Franzen. Now this is the author who famously gave Oprah the blow off a few years back at the outset of his huge bestseller "Freedom" (later to reconcile) and I frankly never got the chance to read it (yet). Also, his had a previous following from other books.

"Freedom" is supposedly the best novel of our generation, and is being made into a movie starring Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton and Amanda Bynes which makes sense since it follows the utopian world of 2014 without a drunk pseudo celebrity in sight- ok no it doesn't do that at all.

Stay with me folks.."Farther Away"is so fine tuned, wonderful and I cannot help but want someone else out there to enjoy it. I am not going to do a play by play review of each essay, as the essays flow one to another, not at all like some smooth river, but much more like a tumbling rapids that, out of the blue, gushes over some dry Utah riverbed soaking it's inhabitants with shocking climate change. (what a deliciously horrible metaphor).

"Farther Away" contains characters every single one of you would recognize, I bet money on it. The essays although non fictional, reveal anxieties about divorces, the Earth, the mid life crisis type moments we all get when our dreams seem "out there", and so many banal things that are really, truly significant moments upon reflection. The author goes through some literary therapy in parts, describing his life changing divorce (in little tid bits and with a very un-pretencious tone), and can immediately take us into his new found love of bird watching and embracing a very deep acceptance that he is, late in life, an environmentalist and Earth advocate. Don't be scared by this, he's not some hippy stereotype and he doesn't preach. His essays are about "evolving" and not letting our egos rule our lives. His essays are about so much more than that, and i can't write more today because there is a Gator Game on in two hours, and time waits for no man in college football.

Read on, friends, read on! It's a healthy habit and for me, like watching a great film. "Farther Away' will make you laugh out loud and completely surrender to fact that most humans, all of us, are very very much alike.

I give it the best review-   two Gator Chomps. Chomp Chomp.

Tacos for breakfast maybe?

It's National Taco Day!! Create your own homemade tacos and have fun with friends and family today. No better excuse in the world to enjoy the lively crunchy spicy flavors of chilies, cilantro, beans, fish, shredded toppings or other imaginative items. Food play should be fun, and tacos are one of the most "fun" foods around. Enjoy friends!

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2012/10/04/national-taco-day/?hpt=hp_bn11

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.  - Ernest Hemingway 

fruit loving dinosaur..or is it our dog?

An Apple a Day Won't keep you from dying but this flow chart is awesome.

Greetings and salutations my dears. In this slate link :

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2012/10/apple_variety_flow_chart_which_kind_of_apple_should_i_choose_for_eating_baking_bobbing_throwing_.html  you will find the perfect flow chart for choosing the right kind of apples for specific occasions. It is fall, it is apple season. I don't really like apples but force myself to eat one almost daily while driving my kids to school. In affect, eating while driving but at least it's not fast food. (eye roll - go for it).  Anyway enjoy this tidy little chart and plan for your next apple bobbing contest (nasty!) or when you next plan to chunk apples at the squirrels that have taken over your backyard. Green granny apples are particularly good for practicing your archery skills - just stick them on poles in your yard, aim and get ready for the next zombie invasion when the lights go out and we have to fight off the infected ones. Good times ahead ! Happy apple eating.