December 2011
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The greatest specimen of the 80's and early 90's
I have a thing for 80’s and early 90’s flicks, actually. Forget the distracting big hair and the insane clashing of prints—not to mention the horrible shoulder pads and jeans that hugged all the wrong places—worn by actors during that time. I think this fondness may have started when I first watched The Breakfast Club when I was ten. And ten years later, it’s safe to...
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Walk Slowly
If you should go before me, dear, walk slowly Down the ways of death, well-worn and wide, For I would want to overtake you quickly And seek the journey’s ending by your side.
I would be so forlorn not to descry you Down some shining highroad when I came; Walk slowly, dear, and often look behind you And pause to hear if someone calls your name.
- Adelaide Love, 1953
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On Marriage
I was reading Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston, a book about a perfect marriage that had gone wrong after having already exhausted all ways of trying to conceive a child. It got me thinking. Do children really hold a family together?
But I remember our Pastor telling us that Children are like add-ons in a marriage. Because when you’re married your first priority should be your partner....
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One of my aunts convinced me to watch Breaking Dawn with her.
She had very strong convincing powers that I finally gave in.
So inside the movie house, I felt like one of those people who, while watching a Harry Potter movie, kept calling Hermione Hermiley and Dumbledore Dumbeldoor (out loud, mind you). I was so ignorant about the whole story of this Twilight saga, it was pretty painful to watch....
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Fourteen years ago in the year 1997.
Yes, this was a letter to Vogue from a 17 year old Zooey Deschanel.
It’s funny, though, because she herself has become an “ideal” without even realizing it. I mean, seriously. I want want want to be like her.
I tell you now...