My Own Thoughts

I've done Body for Life for most of the last 14 months. I tried Physique Transformation for two of those months. In all that time I have gained a total of 15 pounds of muscle and lost 49 pounds of fat. That's great. It's much better than I was. But it's not wonderful. After 14 [...]

I'll say right up front I haven't read the book. But I want to read it. I got an email with quotes from it in it. Thought I would throw some of those in.Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland On feeling ordinary: “This book is about making art.? Ordinary art.? Ordinary art [...]

I saw a very strange/compelling movie Sunday night. Despite the fact that I sent the guys to get a comedy, and despite the fact that it was labeled a comedy, Adaptation is NOT a comedy. It is, however, a wonderful movie. I wrote gripping there, then I had to take it out. It isn't a [...]

Every once in a while I just start at the top of the blog types and go through the most recent blogs published in all the types. (Though I may have to quit going if they get too many of those.) I find all sorts of interesting places and things. Queensbury.blog-city is from Houston. Sounded [...]

It's a fantasy. I have 95,000 words (before the first major edit) done so far. I still have at least four chapters to write. Of course, that is what I thought yesterday morning and yesterday I wrote one and I still have four chapters… This is getting longer as we go. I guess that's okay. [...]

This site says that in the 50s most women were married when they were 18. Now most women are 25 when they marry. According to the survey, the age at which we reach the seven stages toward adulthood are: Financially independent: 20.9 Not living with parents: 21.2 Full-time employment: age 21.2 Finishing school: 22.3 Able [...]

This site has a radically good discussion of better government through inefficiency and an accurate and caustic response to the running away of the Democrats who didn't like the voting rules. (The voters get to pick the legislature.) Here's the whole thing if you don't want to click and go: I've always felt that one [...]

My husband sent me a website about a woman and her breasts. I have size D, naturally. My husband wrote me and said this woman said a lot of things similar to what I had said over the years. I’ll tell you, she says them much more elegantly than I did. But then I never [...]

Had finals this week. I gave mine on Saturday. Had to be graded and grades in by today at noon. Got it done. That's not amazing. What is amazing that I had people come to class who have been absent half the time, haven't turned in any papers, and want to know if they can [...]

Two dreams which have come true, an earthquake, a hailstorm, a demon scare, a major case of the evil eye, protective custody, a baby being born with a cord around his neck, a jealous rival, an armed invasion, a lion attack, and a mob stoning an old bald man… These are the ways I've been [...]

Read an interesting blog today with some links to color sites on the web. This one is on color psychology. It says black is the color to look thinner, appear aloof, and be submissive. (Drats. I like my black outfit that my husband calls my “kick ass” outfit. But I sure don't want to submissively [...]

This article on Plastic says that FOX is going to be shut out of Britain because it is biased. I think this is interesting because I think all news is biased. What is covered makes it biased. Journalists ignore stories which show their views in a bad light and highlight stories which show others' views [...]

My sons and I have been talking about this. Then I saw a study on it on Reuter's Health. My boys and I talked about being able to drive–16 here. 17 in NY. 15 in Louisiana. We talked about being able to leave home– also 16. We talked about voting. 18. We talked about legally [...]

This story on BoingBoing is about a guy who is going to open a booth where you can pop in and tell your story. Keeping oral history alive. Interesting. Oral history plays a big part in my novel. (Which is kind of hard to do since it is written…)

Found a bizarre story on Plastic. It's about a guy on a death protest outside an IRS office . The comments were even more interesting than the story. Learned a lot from them. Now I am wondering exactly what the guy is going to die about. If the question is that simple to answer, someone [...]

The Artist's Way is a book which suggests lots of interesting and useful things. It also talks about some goofy ones. You can read some reviews here and order the book for as little as .99cents. (On a side note, I bought a used book for $2 and it had never been opened. Was also [...]

Haven't been writing here much. Haven't been writing anywhere. I've been reading and antique shopping to avoid working on my novel. I want to finish the first section by the end of the month. I'm close. But I have got to get over being afraid to finish it (it'll be bad, no one will want [...]

Found a rating of the 50 greatest Movie Moments. Many of the movies I hadn't seen, since I am not a big movie fan. But the ones I knew were great. I had even seen some of the scenes in movies I hadn't watched. I guess that proves they are among the best. You click [...]

That's what got my attention about this article. It says the researchers studied women in their 20s and 50s. Those who didn't have a permanent (or semi-permanent) partner had dates just as frequently, at either age. But the younger women got more sex, more cuddles, more making out, more sleeping together. This, the study called [...]

As mentioned in the last two entries, I read a book I didn't like. My first thought was “run away.” Go get another book and hide from the feelings. My next was “eat.” Since I just finished eating half of a not very good Chinese meal, that was a bad choice. A choice from before [...]