Posts….

Are you READY??? (ready or not….)

Christmas Photo a Day starts in 28 DAYS.  (Follow this link to an absolutely NOT complete look at CPAD photos from Christmas past.)

Where did this year GO?? Have you any idea what your new years resolutions were for 2019? Are you ready for 2020? I hope that the good outdid the bad this year, for you…

I am sorry to inform you, but you are NO LONGER early with your Christmas shopping. Indeed, you are starting to skate pretty close to “OMG, what am I getting aunt Susie this year!” All that’s between you and Christmas is Election Day on Tuesday (VOTE!!!) and Thanksgiving.

Have you signed up to get a little holiday cheer yet? A laugh, a chuckle or a memory in photo form, delivered to your INSTAGRAM, to your FACEBOOK, to your TWITTER or, if you are still opening it daily, your EMAIL? (Don’t trust that you HAVE in the past signed up… please go check that you follow me on one of the three links above.  If you want me to be sending you an email each morning with your Photo A Day, please contact me)  (Twitter—fair warning, you WILL see a lot of political posts if you follow me there)

Let me remind you that you still have time to find aunt Susie a perfect, and unique gift-– a gift of ART. 

Straight from the comfort of your couch, take a wander through this gallery or any of the others on my website, The View From the Passenger Window.  These carefully curated albums are full of my most popular, best-selling images.

The shopping experience has been made easier and it’s more intuitive. This year, all the prices are set. I am not offering any coupons or promos. Shop now and rest easy, prices are not going to change tomorrow. (please also realize that the price you pay is NOT how much I am earning….I have my profit set relatively low to the cost of the photos production cost)

AND!!!!! Drumroll please, HOLIDAY GREETING CARDS are back! Flat 5×7 25 pack or more, starting at $.92 per card! It seems as if you can only get holiday cards at the moment, but at least they are back!

Now We Are SIX.

Never Forget. Ever. (she was eight yesterday. time moves on)

aliaslaceygreen's avatarMore Notes From the Refrigerator Door

(Yes, it’s been some time since I have blogged. I guess I haven’t had anything nice to say, and that’s how I was raised 😉  )

TEN YEARS ON…. (The following is LONG. It is emotional and it is depressing. Since I started blogging, I have written something about the events of 9-11, and I have linked to a website where a very small part of the following is posted. This year, I have simply consolidated the entire scrapbook and writings that are in it, and created a new gallery on my photo website so all is viewable and archived.)

It turns out I can’t ReBlog something more than once. So, HERE is my September 11, 2011 blog post…  written SIX years and two days ago, on the eve of Laylabug’s birth… six years of absolute joy and wonder, while right outside that little bubble of love, life goes on…

View original post 16 more words

Becoming

I just finished listening to “Becoming”, by Michelle Obama.

I am not typically an audiobook person for THE FIRST time around, I should clarify. I love to listen to well-worn tales that I can zone out on for a bit without having to rewind wondering WHAT just happened??? So, I will often re-listen to 100 Years of Solitude or Hitchhikers Guide or Outlander.

However, the wait list at the library was months long for both book and audiobook, so I put both on hold, and the audio arrived first.

9781524763138_p0_v6_s550x406-1Read it.  Listen to it.  Play it during the to and from school commute with your children. Any child should know that THEY have space in their world to BECOME ….

It is gentle, funny, inspiring and so truthfully told.

It starts at the very beginning, a very fine place to start, and it made me think back on my childhood, my recollections and wonder at how many things, if I REALLY thought about them, influenced me in ways I am not aware of, until I start to think about them carefully.

Can I recall tales like these? Or ike the absolutely hysterical recollection my husband has of getting on his bike and running away to grandma’s house because of…. yeah, HE  will have to tell THAT tale 🙂

Probably. I can, if prompted, and not required to put a date on things, tell all sorts of tales. Tales so similar to those that Michelle Obama tells of her 4 year old self…

There were many places I wanted to stop and write down a quote, and I didn’t… because, well, driving. So, on a little Google search, here is a list of some of them… Not  necessarily the ones that were the things that I had wanted to note… because some of them were more introspective in the margin kind of things…

I am sure I will read or listen again someday, but in the meantime I know that there is a whole list of library patrons waiting, so I sent it back early.