by jphilo | Mar 15, 2012 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
Our house is awash in good news these days. Two of this Thursday’s three thoughts are a means for handling the overflow.
- The weather forecast says 70 degrees all week, 20 degrees above normal. Which is too much of a good thing this early in March. With every glance at the daffodils, I worry about a killing frost nipping them in the bud. Garrison Keillor would call this response the Lutheran effect. This is what happens when little girls who spent summers at their Lutheran relatives’ farms grow up.
- I’ll admit it. My favorite character in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was neither the Beast or the Beauty. My fave character was Mrs. Potts.Does this mean that watching too many episodes of Murder She Wrote as a young adult can be too much of a good thing?
- In the last month our son and his wife announced they’re expecting, and our daughter and son-in-law announced he was accepted into the MFA program at U of Wisconsin – Madison. My response to so many good things? I expect this unusually warm weather to spawn another round of tornadoes which will destroy our home any minute. It’s the Lutheran effect. Again.
by jphilo | Mar 8, 2012 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
We did lots of people watching (the PC term for staring) during our vacation. The students from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) made the pass time highly entertaining and provoked more than three thoughts. Here are a few standouts:
- Though tights or leggings under dresses or long shirts with cowboy or high boots are big this year, my sister and I refrained from purchasing matching outfits. We apologize for disappointing you.
- Art and design students look as self-consciously devil-may-care as other young adults determined to express their individuality. But somehow, they carry it off with great drama and flair. But how do they keep from falling off their platform shoes?
- Some day, a passel of aging, artsy moms will fail to convince their teenage daughters that denim cut off shorts, bare legs, and high boots with spiky heels were once considered fashionable. To avoid the issue, maybe now’s the time to pull certain pictures off Facebook.
by jphilo | Mar 1, 2012 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
We were monkeying around in warm and sunny Savannah yesterday when the news came that Davy Jones, the cutest of the wacky Monkees, had died. Maybe the setting and loss explain the content of these three thoughts for Thursday:
- Live stream internet radio is a pick-me-up for Midwesterners vacationing in the south. What’s better than sitting on a condo’s back porch in shirtsleeves while listening to storm warnings and school closings back home?
- For those who need proof of the power of music, consider this. I can remember only the names of two of the Monkees – Davy and Mickey – but can remember every word of the theme song.
- My parents were not fans of the Monkees TV show, but since it wasn’t scheduled opposite The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction or Bonanza, they sometimes relented and let us watch it. Looking back at the quality of those shows, who says TV has gone downhill since the good old days?
by jphilo | Feb 23, 2012 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
This week, I watched Downton Abbey’s season finale, listened to the audiobook of Terry Pratchett’s Making Money, and checked out the new Charles Dickens biography from the library. No wonder this Thursday’s three thought are very, very British.
- Terry Pratchett is one of the world’s funniest, most creative authors. Could anyone else give a main character the first name of Moist and get away with it?
- Daisy the kitchen maid’s hairdo for the Servant’s Ball in Downton Abbey’s season finale was a dead ringer for my second grade Sunday church ‘do. Do you think my mother fixed Daisy’s hair? If so, did Daisy have to sit still and watch Lawrence Welk while mom rolled her lovely locks?
- Charles Dickens wrote fiction, but was not fictional himself. Therefore though his grandmother was a housemaid, she did not work at Downton Abbey because the Crawley family is fictional. And Dickens’ grandfather’s surname was not Moist, which is too bad. Because Dickens is one British author who could have matched the humor Terry Pratchett employed while using it.
by jphilo | Feb 16, 2012 | Current Events, Three Thoughts for Thursday
Since this week began with a smokin’ episode of Downton Abbey and moved on to Valentine’s Day, it’s no wonder this Thursday’s three thoughts include love triangles. But as for the fixations with hot flashes and Pinterest, I have no idea of their origin.
- The minute Lavinia Swire walked into Downton Abbey, she was the doomed member of the love triangle. In our family, we call it the “Bonanza” principle. It’s named after the 1960s – 70s TV western series where beautiful, female guest stars always died. How about you? Did you see it coming?
- If a picture is worth 1000 words, is there any place on Pinterest for writers?
- If women in their 50s were in charge of utilities companies, they would already have invented heat pumps that could be attached to menopausal, hot flashing women, thus alleviating human suffering and solving the energy crisis in one, fell swoop.
Now it’s your turn. Leave a comment about your Thursday thoughts, even if they don’t include Valentine’s Day, Downton Abbey, Pinterest, and hot flashes.
by jphilo | Feb 9, 2012 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
For the past week, my nose has been buried in the book proposal. It’s off to the agent now – hopefully her nose will be buried in it soon – and my mind is free to think three bookish thoughts for Thursday.
- Though writing a book proposal involves fewer bodily fluids than giving birth, they both create big messes to clean up after the deed is done.
- In my book, the Super Bowl halftime show was a little overdone. Either that or I’m jealous of Madonna, who is only five years younger than me, can still dance in 5 inch heels. Bet her glutes are stronger than mine, too.
- Would it be self-serving to mention that Different Dream Parenting chances of becoming a finalist in the 2011 Readers’ Choice Award depends on the number of nominations it receives at this link from readers like you?
You’re right, it sounds self-serving, so I’m not gonna mention it. I’ll practice falling dancing in 5 inch heels instead.
