Star Trek-I am SO suprised that I liked it!
The Last Station-really liked it-both Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren were great
Shutter Island-REALLY didn't like it!
Up- loved it!
Burning Plain-good story
District 9-why oh why is this nominated for an Oscar?!?
Crazy Heart-Jeff Bridges should win the Oscar!
The Hurt Locker-good but I couldn't watch!
Bright Star
Taking Chance- great docudrama
Book of Eli-loved it
Avatar- YES
The Road-almost as good as the book
It's Complicated-SO funny!
Invictus-Morgan Freeman WAS Mandela!
Sherlock Holmes-good
Up in the Air-yes
Away from Her-heartbreaking
American Me-too too real!
Blind Side-loved this movie!
The Ugly Truth
The Stone Angel
The Graduate-yes, the 1967 movie!
The Ultimate Gift-very good
Marley and Me-as good as the book!
Seven Pounds-Will Smith is quite an actor
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas-outstanding movie
Bridehead Revisited-a little slow
Grace is Gone-heartbreaking and touching story
Duplicity-puzzling-ah, the ending!
Taken-predictable but well done
Rachel Getting Married-what a waste!
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly-four stars!
W-better than I expected
27 Dresses-yes, it IS a chick flick!
The Express-Ernie Davis Story-good true story
Frozen River-excellent
Miracle at St. Anna-like it
Vickie Christina Barcelona-not that great
Wall-E-cute
The Wrestler-Mickey Rouke is highly over-rated
Milk-Sean Penn is awesome
Dark Knight-Batman is not exactly my cuppa tea but nevertheless pretty good-yes Heath Ledger is very good
The Duchess-again, like a movie based on a real life
Frost/Nixon-now we'd like to see the original interview
Defiance-really good true story of WWII
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button-much better than I expected-fabulous makeup
Last Chance Harvey-nice light flick
SlumDog Millionaire-wasn't prepared to like it but it is really good
Doubt-I'm not Catholic but...
The Reader-liked the book and the movie
Revolutionary Road-felt so bad for them!
Valkyrie-enlightening!
Gran Torino-a "best" movie and of course its Clint Eastwood :-)
Tale of Despereaux-kids loved it!
Snow Angels-skip it
Changeling - so good
Secret Life of Bees - excellent

currently reading Truth and Beauty-Ann Patchett
A Girl of the Limberlost-Gene Stratton-Porter
The Sunday Philosophy Club-Alexander McCall Smith
The Happiness Project-Gretchen Rubin - reading it on my new Nook!
She Flew the Coop-Michael Lee West
I quit reading Going Rogue-Sarah Palin
The Delaneys Christmas Carol
The Art of Racing in the Rain
When Madeline Was Young-Jane Hamilton
I Feel Bad about My Neck-Nora Ephron
Stern Men-Elizabeth Gilbert
French Lessons-Peter Mayle
Eat Cake-Jeanne Ray
Nora Roberts trilogy "Keys"
The Winner-David Baldacci
A Risk Worth Taking-Robin Pilcher
December-Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop
The Virgin of Small Plains-Nancy Pickard
The Patron Saint of Liars-Ann Patchett
The Lucky One-Nicholas Sparks
gods in Alabama-Joshilyn Jackson
Testimoney-Anita Shreve
Beyond Belief-Finding the Strength to Come Back-Josh Hamilton
Body Surfing-Anita Shreve
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button-F. Scott Fitzgerald-the movie VERY loosely follows this shortstory!
Family Matters-Rohinton Mistry
Dear American Airlines-Jonathan Miles
Coast Road-Barbara Delinsky
Winterthorn by Maeve Binchy-she is always interesting
Secret Life of Bees - really good book

Blue, blue blue and more blue!

Mexican
Southwestern
Italian
Pizza
Burgers
Breakfast for dinner
Steak
Let's see - there's not much I don't like!

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"People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present." Thich Nhat Hanh

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." Epictetus

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants." Esther de Waal

"Do good, feel good, feel good, do good." The Happiness Project book

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Howard Thurman

Happily Incompatible-Billy Graham
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Henry David Thoreau

Fly with the angels...dance with the stars

Just for today I will strive to recognize the beauty within myself. I will escape discouragement and replace it with virtue. I will offer compassion and forgive my faults. I will bury self-doubt and plant seeds of optimism. I will cast out bitterness and treasure purity. Today...I will embrace every good thing and surrender myself to God. Leslie A. Neilson

Like giggling, stillness is infectious. It is getting caught up completely in the laughing mind of God. Hugh Prather

Success in life is not how well we execute plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with plan B! Simple Abundance

I can gossip without malice. I can complain about the government without resentment. I can rail against the weather without getting drenched. Hugh Prather

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C.S. Lewis

Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea. Unknown

Be gentle with yourself. Max Ehrmann

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. George Burns

I'm 66 but I feel, ah maybe, 51!, Sachel Paige is quoted as having said "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?,

Serenity
Honesty
Family
Friends
Love to eat out!

Stress - does anyone?
Chaos
Onions!
Inaccuracies spread over the internet and "forwards" on E mail!

TRAVELING-my husband Gary & I have been full time RVing for 16 years-we've traveled to all 50 states, most more than once, a good part of Canada and a touch of Mexico.
Eating-finding that hole-in-the-wall place
Shopping
Reading
Racing safety marshall-yes, I wave the yellow flags!
Visiting and photographing Carnegie Libraries-I just added #68! I've recently started buying old postcards of the Carnegie Libraries on E Bey