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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

“I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.” —Amy Poehler

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Sunday, January 20, 2013

January Book Reviews

The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown: I really enjoyed this book about three daughters of a Shakespeare professor dad and a mom suffering from cancer. I found it smart and well paced. It also feel clearly into the category of books that weave a predictable plot through love and tie everything up perfectly, which can be maddening sometimes, but this time it mostly worked. (Okay, I hated the fact that it had an epilogue to complete the big red bow tied around the plot, but it was a smart enough to book to be forgiven that.)

Every Last One by Anna Quindlen: I don't really know how to talk about this book. It was so tragic and yet it didn't really feel sad. I think that was to goal - to write about hope and perspective amid grief and she did that well. "Ruby loved to tell me things I didn't know, and that afternoon, as we sipped lemonade and scuffed our bare feet through the shaggy grass, she had told me about the butterfly effct, how the beating of their wings in Mexico could cause a breeze in our backyard. 'That's kind of terrifying,' I replied. But even as I spoke I realized that that was what we had all believed from the moment we had children. The breast-fed baby became the confident adult. The toddler who listened to a bedtime story went on to a doctorate. We flapped our wings in our kitchens, and a wind blew through their futures."

The Skinny Rules by Bob Harper: Well, it is mostly working, so I say yay for this book.

Photographs (Self Portraits) by Heidi Lender "“Stand on a bench. Make sure it’s Monday. Wear something pretty.” http://heidilender.com/category/once-upon

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Posing Ideas {Mom and daughter}

"I didn't always know what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be." -Diane Von Furstenberg

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

the fulfilled life is a consequence, a gratifying byproduct. It’s what happens when you’re thinking about more important things. Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Go to Paris to be in Paris, not to cross it off your list and congratulate yourself for being worldly. Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billion—and those who will follow them. And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special.

Because everyone is.

-David McCullough (Wellesley Commencement)