Around the treehouse lately we've been listening to the Tarzan soundtrack. We checked the movie out from the library last weekend and watched it. Avery liked it, but she keeps talking about Charlie and the monkeys. I'm not sure where Charlie comes into things, but everytime she looks at the Tarzan CD she calls him Charlie.
The other day in the car she asked Saraby if she liked handburgers. Saraby said yeah, and then Avery put her finger in her nose and said, here mama, hand-booger. Nice.
But all in all, 2 1/2 is a lot of fun.
What are five books that changed your life?
Inspired by Ms. Genevieve.
1. To Kill A Mockingbird - I'm reading Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee right now.
2. Atlas Shrugged
3. The Stand
4. The Giving Tree - I always felt like I was the only person who thought that the kid was a horrible, rotten person. Always take, take, take. The tree just loves you, why don't you give something back, huh!!
5.
1994 was not a stellar year for me. It was my first semester in journalism school, I had to take a writing class (ick!), many things sucked. But it was the year I had the chance to meet Molly Ivins.
She was being honored at a journalism banquet and I was one of the escorts in charge of getting the honorees to the event. I only spent 30 minutes with her before the banquet but they were very a funny 30 minutes. If you couldn't get fired up about something after hearing her talk about it, then chances were you weren't ever going shake off your apathy.
When I worked in Texas, I always hoped she would come to the Senate floor and I would get a chance to meet her again but she never did.
*Coincidently, the banquet was also where Susan Meiselas gave me the best advice I never took. She told me to drop out, travel and take pictures. Not to worry about the whole education part of it. In hindsight, she was totally right.
