Dec 30, 2008 -
I went to see Bedtime Stories today with my sister and friend and i was pleasantly surprised.
Plot: Marty Bronson (Jonathan Pryce) who raises his son and daughter on his own has to sell his homey motel to clever Barry Nottingham (Richard Griffiths) who promises to make Marty's son manager, when he's grown up and has proven himself. Nottingham pulls down the motel to raise a pricey hotel.
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Sep 16, 2009 -
So I finally decided to unpack my boxes of books and organize them on the new bookshelf today and while doing so, I came across this gem of a book, buried in the midst, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
It immediately brought me back to July 2000 right before my freshman year of college was to start and 3 months after being moved to the states in the sweltering S. Carolina heat.
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Aug 24, 2009 -
It's hard to age gracefully as a supermodel. But at 43, Cindy Crawford has her coping strategies firmly in place – a mixture of acceptance and defiance. "I have cellulite.
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Jul 27, 2009 -
http://www.utne.com/Spirituality/Prayer-from-an-Agnostic-Catholic.aspx
I should have known I was asking for trouble when I chose Thomas as my confirmation name. Even at seventeen, I thought a sincere faith could withstand rigorous questioning. And I have always been a Catholic with doubts.
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Nov 03, 2008 -
Love that the article opens up referring to the "legions of teenagers who have read the novel"... um, I'm a bit past that age group ;)
November 2, 2008
Love and Pain and the Teenage Vampire Thing
By TERRENCE RAFFERTY
AS the legions of teenagers who have read the novel on which the forthcoming film “Twilight” is based know, the awkward passage from youth to maturity isn’t the very worst problem an adolescent can have. You could fall helplessly in love with a vampire, which is what happens to the virginal 17-year-old heroine and narrator of Stephenie Meyer’s book.
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Mar 10, 2009 -
When I was a child, my mother never read to me at bedtime. Being an immigrant to this country, she was not used to reading English, nor had she grown up being read to by her own mother. So taking the time to curl up with a story was not something she felt comfortable doing with me.
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Jan 25, 2009 -
By Sheila Weller
Around 7:00 P.M. on November 4, 2008, Courtney Cockrell, a 27-year-old law student, was stuck in traffic and yelling at the radio. She was driving from the Ole Miss campus in Oxford, Mississippi, to her parents’ house in Jackson to watch the election returns with her twin sister, Corrie, and their family.
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Jan 18, 2009 -
Did Jesus really look like Woody Allen? Why does a "God" have to be beautiful? What if Jesus was a slob like all of us, like a stranger on the bus?...OH wait...that last part is a song.
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Jul 25, 2008 -
British actor, author and comedian Russell Brand will host this year’s Video Music Awards. The show set to air live from Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles on Sept. 7, MTV told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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Jan 09, 2007 -
The Monster at the End of This Book
Inspired (once again) by LizaToad - here is one of my childhood favourites.
I have some wonderful, warm memories of my Dad reading me this as my bedtime story. I think I chose it almost every night!
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