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54 days ago
So, i've been mulling over mvoing the blog to somewhere more comment friendly. Where you can talk to me and i can talk to you and, yeah. I'm moving. This is the last post on this blog--so please update your links and stuff. martha-teresa.blogspot.com
62 days ago
Dear Quddus, This weekend i scored either a 4th or 5th edition of the Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam from the second hand book store. Yeah, okay, i know you are thinking what, why did we not go to this magical bookstore when i was there??!! Yeah yeah, so the book is small, with a purply/brown (almost mohagany cover), with the name imprinted only on the spine and was either published in 1876 or 1889. I have no way of knowing which it is at this moment---but the inscription when it was gifted reads 1899. Personally i think the flowy script inscription would be your favorite part. You would no doubt make up some story about its journeys. I would have passed over it had it not looked so different from the rest of the tattered paperbacks it was nestled amidst. Nevertheless, i obviously couldn't leave it there and not give it a home on my shelves. One day, i promise you, i will have a library and a big leather chair and books stacked roof high. As you know darling, i am a huge ...
64 days ago
Like go to fundraising luncheons and hear people like Geoffery Canada speak. Its a pic of the big screen because i shake too badly to take photos without flash. Ok, so here's the question, i know. Who is this dude? Well, No.1 he's a really powerful speaker. No.2 his senior year of high school he lost every football game, but he had the most positive coach ever (see no.1). No 3 He's the founder of the Harlem Children's Zone. Starting as a truancy prevention program, it has expanded to provide social services to children over a 90 block radius in Harlem and serves over 10,000 kids. They follow the kiddos from birth to college and try to strengthen families as they go. In 2004 they even opened their own charter school. Obama is said to be modelling some programming from them. It was an inspiring talk---the main point of which is that there is no "superman" coming to save us, no magic secret plan someone in a pay grade higher than us knows about that we dont. We ...
65 days ago
So sometimes i think i'm blogging to no one--but i can see people who aren't me read this thing...and lately someone's been reading the REALLY OLD stuff. Plus, I'm not smart enough to figure out how to put google analytics on my microsoft blog and no one ever leaves comments...Anyways. point is. i would like to know who's reading my little corner of the universe to fulfill my need to stroke my ego a little. That, and to let me think i am maybe just as entertaining in real life as i think i am in my head. Either way...i'm leaving you this picture, of me and monz trying to figure out directions while you figure out how to leave a comment or email me to tell me its you.69 days ago
When i was between the ages of 8 and 12 i have a few very distinct memories of my grandmother's apartment. The first is that it always smelled like smoke---it had saturated into the furniture--even years later after it had been cleaned those sofas still smelled faintly sweet/smoky. i swore then and there--and held to it over the 14 years i smoked--that i would never be an indoor smoker. Now that its been 9 months since i quit, i'm endlessly grateful that nothing reeks. But the second thing i remember is that the second bedroom of the apartment housed a table upon which was ALWAYS a 3000 piece jigsaw puzzle. I started playing the lame ones online a month ago...and finally went to target to buy a couple last week. Of course, this led to the neurotic need to do nothing--no eating no homework no sleep--other than finish the damn puzzles. So, here's the first two: 1. Cows in Germany. No i don't know why the cows were in Germany. Its just what the box said. No i didn't make that up. ...
