The new Timeline feature and enhanced News Feed have caused a stir in the past months. (Some might say it’s a bit more than a stir…) Change is inevitable. Change is necessary. If Facebook didn’t change and adapt, they’d be left behind. (Even though many users complain at any inconvenience to their user experience.) Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, announced this Timeline would become a virtual scrapbook that would “tell the story of your life.” The Facebook mission has always been to “make the world more open and connected.” With 800 million, the social network is well on it’s way. The idea of sharing the story of your life caught...
Book Review: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See Description: A language kept a secret for a thousand years forms the backdrop for an unforgettable novel of two Chinese women whose friendship and love sustains them through their lives. My Review: What a breathtaking ride Lisa See takes you on, through 19th Century China like you’ve never heard. Isolation, expectations, degradation, foot-binding, child birth…The women of this society led secret lives through their nu shu “women’s writing.” From our western eyes, there are countless practices and beliefs that will jar you and rock your senses. There were times I felt a bit queasy in reading. The custom of foot-binding –...
Book Review: A Most Unsuitable Match
Description: An unlikely attraction occurs between two passengers on a steamboat journey up the Missouri River to Montana… She is a self-centered young woman from a privileged family who fears the outdoors and avoids anything rustic. He is a preacher living under a sense of duty and obligation to love the unlovable people in the world. She isn’t letting anything deter her from solving a family mystery that surfaced after her mother’s death. He is on a mission to reach the rejects of society in the remote wilderness regions of Montana. Miss Fannie Rousseau and Reverend Samuel Beck are opposites in every way… except in how they both keep wondering...
A father’s wedding toast…with a little cheese
I’m sure no father looks forward to the day they hand off their daughter to a man. That, or they count down the days. Either way, my dad is known for his witty remarks. He’s also known as the man who “tolerates” animals only because his daughter wanted them. His name suggestion for a kitty I brought home? “RK.” Road Kill. (I didn’t name the cat that, by the way.) So when he buys his first-born daughter a horse, it is with the intention that the horse diversion will keep her away from boys. Hopefully until she is 30. Well, if you’ve read how I met my “keeper,” you’d know...
An Interview with Myself Part 3
Here we go again! See Part 1 and Part 2 of the interview to learn a bit more about me. 21. If you could be or do anything else – what? I’d write, take photos, blog and connect with people each day. Thankfully, I’m living the dream. 22. If you could live in any other time, when might that be? The 1940s, hands down. There is of course a glamour surrounding the period and the way the country rose to meet the war demand. But I would want to see it, feel it, understand the true struggles and the meaning of sacrifice. What have we had to “ration” or sacrifice...