Sunday, March 27, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HENRY!!

This has been a big year for Henry.

He has lost 68 pounds this year.
He ran 6.8 miles last week.
He has done so many 5Ks I have lost count.
He is in training for a half-marathon.
He still has odd taste in clothes.
What could this year possibly hold for him??
A trip to his new most favorite store in the world...
Perhaps a new pair of running shoes...
 ...where we met Betsy...

Then on to Nozomi for...

 Dinner with Betsy.
 I got him tickets to "MY RUN" a movie about a 57-year old man who ran 75 marathons in 75 days...true story.
Hoping that this will dissuade him from the inevitable...
if I ran 2 I can run 3
If I ran 3 I can run 5
If I ran 5 I can run 10
If I run 10 I can run 13
If I run 13 I can run.....

But his big gift, wowed him incredibly...
he ended his night dreaming of his upcoming
TATTOO!!!

 
 

Sunday, March 20, 2011

THE CHEEZ(IT) STANDS ALONE

When Cliff was home he bought a box of Cheez-it crackers.  They were scrumptious, wonderful, cheezy.


Henry surprised me of Super Large Cheez-it crackers.  Twice the size, twice the taste.  Heaven!!


I got up this morning looked outside and did a double take--
 yup--the Cheez-It stood alone.

Denny Crane Rosengren Friedman was evidently unable to open the box with his paw.  Every person (dog) deserves a healthy nummy snack!!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

DAY AFTER NIGHT

I know that I am probably the last person in the world to read Day After Night.  That being said, I am now sharing the shame of that fact and telling you to buy this on your kindle, on Amazon, get it at the library.  



As enthralling as The Red Tent was, Anita Diamant's lastest book will carry you away again to a different period of history.  I was a little reluctant because I really did not like her "Last Days of Dogtown" book at all, but this is remarkable.  Just a few pages into Day After Night and you feel as though you can smell the ocean, and feel the lumps in the pillow. 

Here is a review:
Just as she gave voice to the silent women of the Old Testament in The Red Tent, Anita Diamant creates a cast of breathtakingly vivid characters -- young women who escaped to Israel from Nazi Europe -- in this intensely dramatic novel.
Day After Night is based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred prisoners from the Atlit internment camp, a prison for "illegal" immigrants run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast south of Haifa. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp with profoundly different stories. All of them survived the Holocaust: Shayndel, a Polish Zionist; Leonie, a Parisian beauty; Tedi, a hidden Dutch Jew; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor. Haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, Shayndel, Leonie, Tedi, and Zorah find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country.
This is an unforgettable story of tragedy and redemption, a novel that reimagines a moment in history with such stunning eloquence that we are haunted and moved by every devastating detail. Day After Night is a triumphant work of fiction. 

Read and enjoy!!