April 22, 2008
I have thought about writing about this topic for a long while now but for many reasons didn't quite get around to it.
It's all about 'word verification' when you comment on other blogs and such. Half the time I can't even read the letters (and I don't wear or need glasses) and the other half of the time I swear I typed in the correct letters and then it bounces back with another request-and then I really swear. I have spent minutes and minutes on some of them because I have just written something really good or at the very least, something that took me a long time to write and other times, I've just written the damn thing off and some poor soul has either missed words of wisdom that could have changed their life OR a tirade full of whining and complaining.
There, I've said it. Written it down. Dealt with it. But why don't I feel better?
Please, word verification-GO AWAY x3l9x@#3
April 21, 2008
As Omi watches from above. We miss you so much.
Love
April 20, 2008
"Brick walls are there for a reason. They are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop people who don't want it badly enough." Randy Pausch
April 19, 2008
This guy is smart and witty and comes up with the best one liners. I thought "I'd rather eat a glass sandwich..." was hilarious! And then I read this today.
"He was dumber then a box of hair." Ted Gideonse
Thanks for making my day Ted!
April 16, 2008
"Twenty years from now you will be
more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by
the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away
from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain
April 15, 2008
The last few weeks have been very whirly for me. Lots of new information coming into my life. Information that I have searched for-lied for-clawed for and often to no avail. And now it all comes. It's almost gushing, there is so much. My brain is too busy and my inner voice too chatty. It's all good in the end but it is a lot all at once but at the same time it can never be enough. So I will ride the wave while it lasts and I will drink it all up and ask for seconds and thirds because my thirst cannot be quenched.
April 14, 2008
I am running out to buy 'Once in a House on Fire' by Andrea Ashworth. Best selling author Jennifer Lauck talks about her on her blog this weekend and basically says she rocks. So, if one memoir phenomena endorses another memoir, well, it must be great. So I googled Andrea and really liked this quote. " I have to say that the catharsis of writing it was painful and messy," she continues. "And there were times during the writing of it when I'd be so immersed in the past: I'd have to call up friends and say, sorry, I can't come out tonight because I'm only nine years old. I couldn't go out and do the normal, sort of grown-up things, I felt so trapped."
Sometimes I feel the EXACT same way when I am writing or in the process of preparing or researching. Do YOU?
So yeah, I'm heading to the bookstore today:)
April 8, 2008
We interrupt regular programming for new information that has come to light. ELD (Every little detail) to follow below. 'ELD' acronym courtesy of Carrie. Carrie rocks!
A blast from the past. A surprise phone call out of the blue that has opened up a rainbow. An email from heaven I think. All things that have happened recently. Bringing to light stuff that I need. Things I need both physical and emotional. I need to know. I want to know. It is my right to know. Thank you for sharing!
Shout out to Joshua from Rochdale times. He knew my mom way back then and has a memory that can challenge even mine. He has been gracious and generous with his time and his thoughts and his memories and I will be forever grateful to this man and look forward to meeting him soon. He has a way with a story and he has shared some stories with me about my mother, her personality, style of dress, funny stories, sad stories-all stories that I will cherish and help me to understand.
To my family-my Anderson family. The family I haven't known in such a long time but have many memories of. The family my dad cherished but couldn't keep together, close, tight. It's hard when you come from an original group of 12. Thank you for reaching out and sharing at this time. I have learned to believe or at least understand, that things happen when they do for a reason.
So I am taking some time. Some time to explore. Opening up the pages and pages of notes and rereading and making new ones. Making plans to travel and talk and learn what more there is and then there will be peace.
April 7, 2008
To Aunt Kay
To cousin Janet
To cousin Colin
Thank you!!
"Old Man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were." Neil Young
Tom Anderson, Artist 'self portrait'
Drawn around 1958 when Tom was 12. It was drawn from a snapshot.
Does a picture really say a thousand words?
Tom aka Tommy Anderson (1945- 1974)
My Dad.
Some of his art that I recently reconnected with.
These were painted when he was 14. This is what it says on the back in his writing:
Floral Display (Still Life)
Date Finished - July 14, 1960
Place of Painting - Toronto, 18 Ontario
Painted By - Tom Anderson
Age At Time - 14 years
Address - 12 Delroy
Net Price - $8.00
Group of 8?
Make it a happy one Ang!
March 1, 2008
Please but your buttered toast down and put your hands together for the newest addition to Rock Star Status, 'poptart girl.' She is too hilarious! Now go click on the sidebar and read her stuff and then send her a comment telling her to write a book already as she really makes one laugh!
In other LO LA LAND news:
Snowed all night.
Snowed all day.
Leaving for California and all things sunny and Ellen and Alanis and tattoos and hanging with best friends and hotel hopping and zooing......
It's going to snow here again.
I will be in California in 13 days.
13 is my lucky number.
It always comes through for me.
It is bedtime now and so I leave you with this quote:
"Life is too short to own an Impala." name withheld