Jul 05, 2009 -
It is summer time! What does that mean? It means it's time to kick off with a great summer reading list!
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Nov 11, 2009 -
It is a bright, Indian summer afternoon in the Litchfield Hills, and the downtown streets of this tourist mecca look invitingly peaceful.
But the communication lines connecting First Selectwoman Ruth Epstein to the outside world have been anything but peaceful for two weeks as the passions aroused by the 9/11 tragedy have turned Kent into a national lightning rod over terrorism, Islam and the role towns should play in memorializing the dead.
Epstein, a former journalist who is stepping down after two terms as first selectwoman, was approached more than a year ago by Peter Gadiel, the father of James Gadiel, a young Kent native who worked as a trader in the World Trade Center and perished in the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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May 23, 2008 -
I love summer reading lists! Check out USA Today's list that was published yesterday and can be found online at http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-05-21-summer-books-calendar_N.htm
I jotted down about 10 to add to my library wait list. If we get rain this weekend I already have a stack that I need to finish.
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Nov 08, 2009 -
Every story has a beginning, i guess this is how everything started for me.
Ever felt that your teenage life was the most mundane, colorless and lifeless? Ever felt that you don't belong no matter how hard you tried to reach out?
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Nov 07, 2009 -
On a balmy autumn day in Vancouver, a young man is longing for a walk outside in the sunshine, and deciding against it. Far easier for him to stay in his hotel room, cocooned in five-star luxury with a mobile phone that has run out of charge, safe at least from the girls chanting his name outside. Robert Pattinson, 23 and from Barnes in southwest London, ought still to be one of Hollywood’s beautiful dreamers, moving up the ranks of movie acting, enjoying his American adventure, his guitar, his good looks.
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Nov 07, 2009 -
In The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second chapter in Stephenie Meyer’s phenomenally successful series, the romance between mortal and vampire reaches an intense and dangerous new level, and reveals a conflict that will haunt Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) as the story continues. Delving into the age-old rivalry between the Quileute tribe and the vampires, which comes to a head with her best friend, Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), and her love, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), Bella quickly learns that the supernatural world that she longs to become a part of will put her at more peril than ever before.As the reluctant vampire who has millions of females swooning all over the world, Robert Pattinson has been working non-stop since signing on for the first Twilight film. Having just wrapped filming on The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the actor also hopes to make Bel Ami and Unbound Captives, before returning for the final chapter, Breaking Dawn, tentatively set to film in the Fall of 2010.At the film’s press day, Robert Pattinson talking about getting used to life with the world watching your every move.Q: What has this past year been like for you?
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Nov 07, 2009 -
Shutting off the miracle-drug spigotBy JEFF STIER & HENRY I. MILLER (NY POST)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right last week when she called her latest health-care-reform proposal a "his toric moment": After decades of life-saving and cost-cutting scientific innovations from drug and medical-device companies, the government is about to step in and stifle the R&D that is our best hope for improving health outcomes.<p> </p><br> Pelosi's bill may cost pharmaceutical companies $150 billion over a decade -- nearly double the amount they conceded when they cut a White House-approved deal with Sen. Max Baucus this summer.<p> </p><br> The Pelosi bill is a prescription for fewer new life-saving drugs.
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Nov 06, 2009 -
CANNES, France–There are no crystal decanters of blood for Robert Pattinson to sip from, or milky white virgin necks to nibble upon.
Pattinson’s treats, arrayed before him on a glass table shaped like a kneeling Greek goddess, aren’t your typical vampire fare: a bowl of potato chips, packages of green apple mint gum and a box of See’s chocolates imported from the U.S.
The world’s sexiest undead man eschews all the caloric temptations, apologizing as he nips off to another room for a few drags on a Camel Lights cigarette before commencing this interview.
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Nov 06, 2009 -
American Actress Sarah Jessica Parker says she loves the smell of dirty nappies. The actress who has five month old twin daughters loves everything about being a mother particularly less fascinating jobs. She told,"I love the smell of diapers - I even like when they are wet and you smell them all warm liked a baked good."
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Oct 26, 2009 -
Beauty Quotes and Proverbs
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to CoherenceAs any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.Tara GradyA person is only beautiful, when their own beauty, is reflecting on to others.UnknownThose who look for beauty, find it.Margaret Wolfe HungerfordBeauty is in the eye of the beholder.Mary Baker EddyThe recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.Marlene Dietrich[The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me. VallyBeauty lies in the specific looks of a person, rather than the object, because different people feel beauty in differnt things.John ConstableThere is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. Remy de GourmontThe ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.John Fitzgerald KennedyI look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. Virginia WoolfThe beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Cliff RichardOnce in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one. ChazalThe beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.Eleanor RooseveltThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Lucille S.
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