Bad Girl librarian Roz Warren should have been on this list. Know anyone else who should be?
http://flavorwire.com/380345/10-of-the-coolest-librarians-alive/
Blogging A Bridge
Take a look at Roz’s post. There’s something very charming about it.
Toots and Benny, her imaginary dog
Should Toots start a dog blog, too?
Give The Gift Of Love
In her piece on Valentine’s Day, Roz mentions giving close friends a gift of a heifer. www.heifer.org
I like chickens. I like birds. I used to like those indigestible yellow peeps that were bought for Easter and were in fact stale before the box was open. I think that not all my friends would appreciate chickens for a Valentine’s Days gift. Chickens need a lot of real estate and chicken wire. Wow! They even have a kind of wire fence named after them. So perhaps this photograph I took of a hotel with a vacancy sign and a swan will do as a substitute for heifers and chickens.
Happy Valentine’s Day.
http://womensvoicesforchange.org/valentines-day-say-it-with-chickens.htm
A Well-Thought Out Life . . .
…needs no resolutions. With one exception my life is orderly and productive, a model for all to see.
Here is my admission: I do not like to get out of bed. My eyes are fully open at 7:45, but I can’t make myself leave the cocoon-like comfort of my bed. Toots seems willing to forgo eating forever if she doesn’t have to move from her comfortable niche between my foot and calf.
I have set my iPhone to rouse me with a quacking sound, as if I live among a roomful of ducks. I am already roused, that is not the problem. I’ve tried counting to ten and then jumping up. I look around, but no one has leapt off the bed.
Perhaps if someone one rang the bell and I knew they carried a pretty porcelain cup and saucer with coffee and condensed milk in perfect proportion to my taste, I would arise, but I don’t think that’s happened since Louis the IX. What is the magnet, within my price range that would induce me to arise and face the day? In case you’re wondering my room is very bright, two windows and a skylight.
What is your suggestion? Perhaps a job that would require my appearance at 9:00 A.M. or a flight of brightly colored parrots landing on the coverlet? Who would arrange that? You might wonder why I have to get up at all? Is it the voice of my deceased mother begging me to greet the day,“Wake up and smell the coffee!” she urges, but she’s in Heaven and her voice is too faint to move me.
For more on resolutions, here’s Roz ringing in the New Year at http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/component/flexicontent/item/48669-my-resolutions-for-you-in-2013.
This Is What Your Fans Do When They Get Together
Roz sent me this after she and Richard B. met for the first time even in Philly….
http://www.humortimes.com/14657/i-read-a-blog-today-oh-boy/
Image from: http://www.factmonster.com/us/history/philadelphia-city-hall.html
Thanksgiving Guests
Suzy and I have been spending Thanksgiving together for a number of years, refining the event every year. It’s very close to perfection. I picked up the dinner from Victory’s Banners, a vegetarian restaurant in the neighborhood. They make the best stuffing I‘ve ever tasted. They only make it on Thanksgiving. I can’t bear the faux turkey, which is in fact, squash . I can’t bear Neat loaf. I don’t know what the heck that is.
This year we fine tuned the meal even further by eating the pecan pie with the stuffing and the vegetables (broccoli). The most excellent salad was desert. Suzy added vanilla shakes with fresh fruit. Next year, root beer floats.
We watched a great film, Headhunters, a Norwegian mystery based on Jo Nesbo novel, and then we saw two episodes of Louis CK. I’d never seen Louis. He is very profound and funny and quite uncomfortable to watch. Did any of your celebrate a somewhat non-traditional holiday? I’m sure you did. Tell us. Thank you.
In case you’re wondering, Toots had her usual fabulous grain free turkey dinner on Thanksgiving as well as some mysterious crunchy stuff that she loves. She spent the evening racing madly around the house, stopping only once to hop up on the arm of Suzy’s chair, look at her searchingly and run off.
For another take on choosing company for Thanksgiving, here’s Roz Warren’s two cents. http://www.womensvoicesforchange.org/divorced-persons-thanksgiving.htm
This Has Happened To Many Of Us
Keeping a loved one alive through all the modern medicine has to offer and wondering if it was wrong to do so. Roz Warren s’ book review of ‘The Cost of Hope’ is moving and timely.
http://womensvoicesforchange.org/roz-reads-the-cost-of-hope.htm
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Can’t figure out what to do with the husband? Take a tip from Roz Warren. Or drop him off at Sylvia’s local bar.
Knocking Their Heads
Bringing you competing stories by Roz Warren and Shelley Singer of Women’s Voice for Change. Enjoy!
My Son Married a Republican: by Roz Warren http://www.womensvoicesforchange.org/my-son-married-a-republican.htm
Medical Mondays: by Shelley Singer http://www.womensvoicesforchange.org/a-concussionary-tale.htm
A Flight Of Fiction
Here is tale spun my Roz Warren. See if you can spot the clues that this story was written several decades ago!
http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/roz-warren/the-penguin-flight
